imperial family

Cards (10)

  • Drusus and Tiberius - Augustus’ stepchildren from his marriage with Livia
  • Gaius and Lucius - Julia the Elder and Agrippa’s children, Augustus's grandchildren, adopted in 17 BC by Augustus
  • Marcellus - Octavia's child and Augustus's nephew
  • Agrippa Postumous - Agrippa and Julia the Elder's son, adopted in 4 AD by Augustus, cast out for improper behaviour so not buried in the Mausoleum
  • Julia the Elder - Augustus' only biological child from his second marriage to Scribonia, married her stepbrother Tiberius
  • Mark Antony’s children were pardoned and looked after by Octavia, Augustus' sister
  • Julia the Younger - daughter of Julia the Elder and Agrippa, granddaughter of Augustus, exiled either for having an affair with a Roman senator, Silanus OR for being involved in her husband's Paullus' revolt
  • Agrippa
    • Briefly one of Augustus' heirs + close ally
    • Chief military advisor and architect of Octavian’s naval victories in Sicily and Actium
    • Aedile in 33 BC and put on games and improved public services
    • Helped Octavian carry out the census of the Senate and in 28 BC - purged Senate of their opponents
    • 22 BC served as co-consul alongside Octavian/Augustus
  • Agrippa married 3 times to promote amicitia
    • First - Attica who gave him his daughter Vipsania Agrippina who married Tiberius
    • Second - Marcella, Augustus' neice, divorced
    • Third - 21 BC Julia the Elder, became Augustus' son in law. At least four children, Agrippa Postumous, Julia, Gaius and Lucius
  • Agrippa
    • Held tribuna potestas like Augustus - could veto laws, was inviolate, and could make laws
    • 13 BC - awarded imperium maius proconsulare: right to command an army which is greater than that of a consul, so can override what any other imperator or governor wants
    • 12 BC dispatched to Pannonia, modern day Austria and died from illness