Drusus - Livius

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Drusus (38-9 BCE): Roman prince, conqueror of Germania.

Full name: Nero (Decimus?) Claudius Drusus

Relatives

• Father: Tiberius Claudius Nero
• Mother: Livia
• Stepfather: Augustus
• Wife: Antonia Minor
  • Son: Germanicus
  • Daughter: Livia Julia (Livilla), married to Drusus the Younger
  • Son: Claudius

Life

• 38, between 18 March and 13 April: Born (shortly after Livia had married Octavian)
• 18 Quaestor
• 16 Succeeds Tiberius as praetor after he has left Rome
• 15 Propraetor in the Raetian War; birth of Germanicus
• 13-11 Propraetor of the Rhine army (I Germanica, V Alaudae, XVII, XVIII, XIX); foundation of Nijmegen, Xanten, Moers-Asberg, Neuss, Bonn, Mainz
• 13 Census in Gaul
• 12 Dedication of the Altar of Roma and Augustus in Lyon; alliance with the Batavians; campaign against the Sugambri; treaties with the Frisians and Chauci^note
• 11 Praetor urbanus; renewed attack on the Sugambri; foundation of Holsterhausen and Oberaden^note
• 10 Birth of Claudius; third campaign in Germania, from Mainz against the Chatti, and to the Sugambri again (Cassius Dio, 54.36.3)
• 9 Consul; fourth campaign in Germania; Drusus reaches the Elbe; death after fall from horse^note
• Cenotaph in Mainz, final burial place in the Mausoleum of Augustus

Other

• Arch of Drusus, Rome
• Cenotaph in Mainz
• Monument in La Turbie
• Canal of Drusus