Nero Claudius Drusus

Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus , born Decimus Claudius Drusus, also called Drusus Claudius Nero, Drusus, Drusus I, Nero Drusus, or Drusus the Elder was a Roman politician and military commander. He was a patrician Claudian on his legal fathers side but his maternal grandmother was from a plebeian family. He was the son of Livia Drusilla and the legal stepson of her second husband, the Emperor Augustus. He was also brother of the Emperor Tiberius, father to both the Emperor Claudius and general Germanicus, paternal grandfather of the Emperor Caligula, and maternal greatgrandfather of the Emperor Nero.

Drusus was the youngest son of Livia Drusilla from her marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero, who was legally declared his father before the couple divorced. Drusus was born between midMarch and midAprilBC, three months after Livia married Augustus onJanuary. Gerhard Radke has proposed the date of Marchas his most likely birthday, while Lindsay Powell interprets Ovids Fasti as indicating a date ofJanuary. Rumours arose that Augustus was the childs real father, although this has never been authoritatively proven. Claudius, however, encouraged the rumor during his reign as emperor to create an impression of more direct lineage from Augustus.

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