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Caligula's failure to protest the destruction of his family is taken by Tacitus as evidence that his "monstrous character was masked by a hypocritical modesty". Winterling observes that a forthright protest would "certainly have cost him his life". [15] [27] [28] In 33, Caligula's mother and his brother Drusus died, while still in exile. [29]
The rumors of incest that surrounded Drusilla could be attempts to discredit Caligula's leadership following his death. The most popular source of these rumors comes from Suetonius , a Roman historian born 28 years after Caligula's death; he wrote that "[Caligula] lived in habitual incest with all his sisters", claiming Caligula and Drusilla ...
Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and first cousin once removed to Agrippina and Caligula. He had two sisters; Domitia Lepida the Elder and Domitia Lepida the Younger. Domitia Lepida the Younger was the mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina.
Agrippa and Julia's marriage resulted in five children: Gaius Caesar, Julia the Younger, Lucius Caesar, Agrippina the Elder (mother of Caligula), and Agrippa Postumus (a posthumous son). From June 20 BC to the spring of 18 BC, Agrippa was governor of Gaul, and it is likely that Julia followed him across the Alps. Shortly after their arrival ...
Caligula's marriage to Caesonia as relates to Julia Drusilla, their daughter, is subject to dispute by historians. Suetonius states that Caligula loved Caesonia sincerely, passionately, and faithfully, even before the two were married and until the day Caligula died, [ 3 ] even though Suetonius is otherwise heavily critical of Caligula's ...
Claudius was Caligula's paternal uncle, being the younger brother of Germanicus, Caligula's father. Caligula was Nero's maternal uncle, being the older brother of Agrippina the Younger, Nero's mother. There were several instances of Emperors being father-in-law and son-in-law to each other:
On her mother's side, she was the younger granddaughter of Augustus. She was the Stepdaughter of Tiberius by her mother's marriage to him, and sister in law of Claudius, the brother of her husband Germanicus. Her son Gaius, better known as "Caligula", would be the third emperor, and her grandson Nero would be the last emperor of the dynasty. [17]
The satirist Juvenal suggests that Caligula's madness was the result of a love potion administered to him by Milonia. [6] Milonia was pregnant at the time of the marriage, and gave birth to a daughter, Julia Drusilla, only one month later (or according to Suetonius, on her wedding day). [7] [4]