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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa 63–12 BC [3] Julia the Elder 39 BC–14 AD [4] Tiberius 42 BC–37 AD r. 14–37 [4] Drusus the Elder 38–9 BC [5] Antonia Minor 36 BC–37 AD: Lucius Aemilius Paullus d. 14: Julia the Younger 19 BC–28 AD [6] Agrippina the Elder 14 BC–33 AD: Germanicus 16 BC–19 AD [7] Claudius 10 BC–54 AD r. 41–54 [7 ...
Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born on 31 August AD 161 in Lanuvium, near Rome. [6] He was the son of the reigning emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and Aurelius' first cousin, Faustina the Younger, the youngest daughter of Emperor Antoninus Pius, who had died only a few months before. Commodus had an elder twin brother, Titus Aurelius Fulvus ...
The major sources depicting the life and rule of Marcus Aurelius are patchy and frequently unreliable. The most important group of sources, the biographies contained in the Historia Augusta, claimed to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the 4th century AD, but it is believed they were in fact written by a single author (referred to here as 'the biographer') from about 395. [4]
Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: 7 March 161 – 17 March 180 (19 years and 10 days) Son-in-law and adopted son of Antoninus Pius. Until 169 reigned jointly with his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, the first time multiple emperors shared power. Since 177 reigned jointly with his son Commodus: 26 April 121 – 17 March 180 (aged 58)
Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor (Minor Latin for the younger, 160–212 AD) was a daughter of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife, Faustina the Younger. She was sister to Lucilla and Commodus. Her maternal grandparents were Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder, and her paternal grandparents were Domitia Lucilla and praetor Marcus ...
Marcus Aurelius had already been created consul with Antoninus in 140, receiving the title of Caesar, i.e., heir apparent. [114] As Antoninus aged, Marcus took on more administrative duties. Marcus's administrative duties increased again after the death, in 156 or 157, of one of Antoninus' most trusted advisers, Marcus Gavius Maximus.
In AD 175 Cassius was proclaimed emperor after he received erroneous news of the death of Marcus Aurelius, [24] whose survival made Cassius a usurper of the empire. [25] Cassius' rebellion ended three months into his bid for the throne when one of his centurions assassinated him in favour of Marcus Aurelius. [26]
[3] [4] His father and namesake was Marcus Antonius Creticus, son of the noted orator Marcus Antonius who had been murdered during the purges of Gaius Marius in the winter of 87–86 BC. [5] His mother was Julia, a third cousin of Julius Caesar. Antony was an infant at the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla's march on Rome in 82 BC. [6] [note 2]