Nero Caesar
Julio-Claudian dynasty
caption=Nero Caesar, son of GermanicusNero Julius Caesar Germanicus (6–30) was a close relative of the
Roman Emperor s of theJulio-Claudian dynasty .Nero was born in 6 to
Germanicus andAgrippina the Elder . His paternal grandparents wereNero Claudius Drusus andAntonia Minor , daughter ofMark Antony andOctavia Minor . His maternal grandparents wereMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa andJulia the Elder , daughter ofCaesar Augustus .Nero's siblings included four brothers (Tiberius and Gaius Julius, who died young; Drusus; and the future Emperor
Caligula ) and three sisters (Julia Livilla , Drusilla andAgrippina the younger ). In 20, he married Julia, daughter ofLivilla and Drusus "Castor" (Tiberius ' only son by Vipsania).Nero was uncle to
Julia Drusilla and Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus).His father Germanicus was
heir apparent to his own adoptive father EmperorTiberius , but Germanicus predeceased the Emperor in 19. He was replaced as heir byJulius Caesar Drusus , son of Tiberius and his first wifeVipsania Agrippina . But he too predeceased the Emperor onSeptember 14 ,23 .Nero was the oldest adoptive grandson of Tiberius, and was seen as the emperor's most obvious successor. However, he was accused of
treason along with his mother in 29. Nero was exiled to the island ofPonza where in 30 he was either induced to commit suicide or else starved to death.References
Portraiture
* Rose, Charles Brian, "Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period." Cambridge, 1997, nr. 17, pp.66-67.
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