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Ancient Roman triumphators
- Julius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar entered the world on 12 or the 13th of July 100 BC into a family claiming ancient divine lineage. His clan traced its roots to Julus, son…
- TiberiusTiberius Claudius Nero stood before the rostra in Rome on 32 BC. He was nine years old when he delivered the eulogy for his biological father.
- PompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus was born on the 29th of September in 106 BC within the region of Picenum. He entered a military career while still young, serving…
- GermanicusGermanicus Julius Caesar entered the world on the 24th of May 15 BC in Rome. He was born to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, placing him at the heart…
- Gaius MariusGaius Marius was born in Cereatae, a small village near the town of Arpinum in south-east Latium. The town had been conquered by the Romans in the late 4th…
- SullaLucius Cornelius Sulla Felix was born in Rome around 138 BC into a branch of the patrician gens Cornelia that had fallen to poverty.
- Scipio AemilianusPublius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus entered the world in 185 BC as the second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and his first wife Papiria…
- Marcus Furius CamillusThe name Marcus Furius Camillus appears in the Etruscan François Tomb, built near Vulci around 350 BC. One painting there shows a figure named Gneve…