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Julio-Claudian dynasty
- 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.
- AugustusOn the 8th of May 44 BC, a teenager named Gaius Octavius accepted a dead man's will and, with it, the most dangerous inheritance in the Roman world.
- ClaudiusOn the 1st of August 10 BC, a boy named Tiberius Claudius D. f. Ti. n. Drusus was born in Lugdunum, modern-day Lyon, France.
- Rise of AugustusIn 44 BC, Octavian was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria when Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March.
- AeneidGreek colonists expanding into Magna Graecia and Sicily during the sixth century BC sought to link their new homelands to pre-existing mythology.
- Julio-Claudian dynastyThe name Julio-Claudian derives from two Roman family names, the Julii Caesares and Claudii Nerones. In classical Latin, these surnames appeared second in a…
- CaligulaGaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was born on the 31st of August in AD 12 at Antium. He was only four or five years old when he accompanied his father…
- Reign of AugustusIn 31 BC, the naval forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra met their end at the Battle of Actium off the northwestern coast of Roman Greece.
- 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…
- Nero Claudius DrususNero Claudius Drusus entered the world between mid-March and mid-April 38 BC, three months after his mother Livia married Augustus on the 17th of January.
- Lusus TroiaeVergil's Aeneid describes the Lusus Troiae as a final event in games held to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Anchises.
- Marcus Vipsanius AgrippaMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa entered the world in 63 BC, the same year Octavian was born. His family originated in the Italian countryside and held plebeian…