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Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (38–9 BC), commonly known in English as Drusus the Elder, was a Roman politician and military commander. He was a patrician Claudian but his mother was from a plebeian family. He was the son of Livia Drusilla and the stepson of her second husband, the Emperor Augustus.
Drusus Julius Caesar (7 October c. 14 BC – 14 September AD 23), also called Drusus the Younger, was the son of Emperor Tiberius, and heir to the Roman Empire following the death of his adoptive brother Germanicus in AD 19. He was born at Rome to a prominent branch of the gens Claudia, the son of Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina.
Drusus Caesar [i] (c. AD 8 – 33) was the grandson by adoption and heir of the Roman emperor Tiberius, alongside his brother Nero. Born into the prominent Julio-Claudian dynasty , Drusus was the son of Tiberius' general and heir, Germanicus .
Marcus Livius Drusus (before 122 BC – 91 BC) was a Roman politician and reformer. He is most famous for his legislative programme during his term as tribune of the plebs in 91 BC. During his year in office, Drusus proposed wide-ranging legislative reforms, including offering citizenship to Rome's Italian allies.
Drusus may refer to: Gaius Livius Drusus (jurist), son of the Roman consul of 147 BC; Marcus Livius Drusus (consul) (155–108 BC), opponent of populist reformer Gaius Gracchus; Marcus Livius Drusus (reformer) (died 91 BC), whose assassination led to the Social War (91–87 BC) Nero Claudius Drusus ("Drusus I", 38–9 BC), brother of Roman ...
Germanicus was born in Rome on 24 May 15 BC to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor and had two younger siblings: a sister, Livilla, and a brother, Claudius. His paternal grandmother was Livia, who had divorced his grandfather Tiberius Claudius Nero around 24 years before Germanicus' birth.
The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus, stepson of Augustus, founded the legionary camp of Mogontiacum opposite the mouth of the River Main, no later than 13–12 BC. It was intended to serve as a strategic starting point for the conquest of Magna Germania. [5] During the campaign in 9 BC Drusus died.
Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (born no later than 93 BC [1] – died 42 BC) was a senator and praetor of the Roman Republic. He was born with the name Appius Claudius Pulcher , into the patrician family of the Claudii Pulchri but adopted by a Livii Drusi as a small child.