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Otho was born on 28 April AD 32. His grandfather Marcus had been a senator, and Claudius granted patrician status to Otho's father Lucius Salvius Otho. [4] [5]Suetonius, in The Lives of the Caesars, comments on Otho's appearance and personal hygiene.
The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius; The Roman History of Cassius Dio; The Life of Galba, the Life of Otho and fragments of the Life of Nero by Plutarch; Other sources on the Year of the Four Emperors are The Jewish War and the Antiquities of the Jews of Josephus; while mainly focusing on the events of Palestine, these works also mention the ...
De vita Caesarum (Latin; lit. "About the Life of the Caesars"), commonly known as The Twelve Caesars or The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.
There have been many attempts at identifying Marcus' father, among them an Otho mentioned to have been a "puny-headed" follower of Julius Caesar in one of Catullus poems was proposed by Ernst Bickel, [3] T. P. Wiseman and Bruce W. Frier have proposed that he may be the Salvius who was tribune of the plebs in 43 BC (and that this man was the son ...
This is a family tree of Roman emperors, ... Julius Caesar dictator perpetuo 100–44 BC: Julia Minor ... Otho 32–69 r. 69: Poppaea Sabina 30–65: Nero
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Like his predecessor, Otho, Vitellius attempted to rally public support to his cause by honoring and imitating Nero who remained popular in the empire. Originally from Campania, likely from Nuceria Alfaterna, [6] he was born to the Vitellia gens, a relatively obscure family in ancient Rome.
Lucius was the son of a Marcus Salvius Otho, whose father was an Etruscan. Marcus had been raised in empress Livia's home. [1] His mother's identity is unknown, although she is described as having been well connected. The appearance of the name "Titianus" in his family has led to speculation that she may have been from the gens Titia.