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Ptolemy Philadelphus was born in 036 BCE. He died in 012 BCE, at age ~24.

Ptolemy Philadelphus (36 - 12 BC) was the youngest child of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Augustus Caesar took him and his sister Cleopatra Selene back to Rome as captives after their parents killed themselves (and their two brothers died) in 30 BC, and they lived with Octavia, who was Augustus's sister and had been Antony's wife. Ptolemy became a chariot racer and died in an accident on the track, competing against his chief rival, Antipater, the son of King Herod the Great of Judea.

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Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was born about 091 BCE in Rome, Italy. He died in Philippi Greece.

Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was the father of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla. Marcus was born as Appius Claudius Pulcher, who descended from the first Appius Claudius Pulcher, son of the Roman Dictator Appius Claudius Caecus.

As an infant, he lost his parents. He was adopted and raised by his father?s friend the consul Marcus Livius Drusus. Livius Drusus? father of the same name was a tribune.

He married Alfidia, daughter of a Roman Magistrate. Their daughter Livia Drusilla was born in 58BC. It?s not known whether they had any other children. He committed suicide along with Cassius and Brutus the assassins of Caesar in Philippi Greece. Before his death, he married his daughter to Tiberius Nero, a relative of his.

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Tiberius Claudius Nero was born in 085 BCE. He and Livia Drusilla Julia Augusta were divorced. He died in 033 BCE, at age ~52.

Tiberius Claudius Nero (c. 85 - 33 BC) was a member of the Claudian Family of ancient Rome. He was a descendant of Tiberius Claudius Pius Felix Nero who was Roman Consul in 202 BC through his father Drusus Claudius Nero. Tiberius Claudius Pius Felix Nero was the son of the Roman Dictator Appius Claudius Caecus. His mother was a descendant of the Claudian Family. His family were republicans.

He was the father of the Roman Emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus; grandfather to Germanicus, Drusus Julius Caesar, Livilla and the Roman Emperor Claudius; great-grandfather to Emperor Caligula; and great- great-grandfather to Nero.

After he served as quaestor, he commanded Caesar's fleet in the Alexandrian War. When he won the victory, Caesar awarded him as a priest and encouraged to create Roman colonies in Gaul and in other provinces.

He created an amnesty for senators to avoid quarrelling among themselves after Caesar's death. Later he was elected praetor. Tiberius was a supporter of Caesar and Mark Antony, but not of Octavian.

In 43 BC or 42 BC, he married his relative Livia Drusilla in Rome. His son of the same name was born 16 November 42 BC, at Fondi, Italy. After 3 years of fleeing from Octavian he returned to Rome withhis wife (who was pregnant) and the younger Tiberius, aged 3.

Octavian fell in love with his wife. On the day that Tiberius and Livia were divorced, she married Octavian. Their second son was born in Lyons, France in January 38 BC. His name was Nero Claudius Drusus.

Drusus was returned to him several months later. Tiberius raised and educated his sons. He died in 33 BC. His sons went to live with their mother and stepfather. The younger Tiberius delivered his funeral eulogy.

In Tiberius' coming of age, he staged 2 gladiatorial contests, one at the Forum and other at the amphithreatre, in memory of his father and grandfather.

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Livia Drusilla Julia Augusta was born in 058 BCE. She and Tiberius Claudius Nero were divorced. She died in 029, at age ~87.

Livia Drusa Augusta, Livia Drusilla, or Julia Augusta (58 BC-AD 29) was the wife of Caesar Augustus and the most powerful woman in the early Roman empire, acting several times as regent and being Augustus' faithful advisor. She was also mother to Emperor Tiberius and Drusus, grandmother to Germanicus and Claudius, great-grandmother to Caligula and Agrippina the younger and great-great-grandmotherto Nero. She was deified by Claudius who acknowledged her title of Augusta.

Marriage to Augustus
She was born in 58 BC as the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus by his wife Alfidia. Her mother Alfidia was a daughter of Aufidius Lurco, a Roman Magistrate from an Italian town. In 42 BC, her father committed suicide in Philippi, Greece along with Cassius and Brutus, the assassins of Caesar, who were defeated by Octavian and Mark Antony. The diminutive Drusilla often found in her name suggests that she was second daughter. For Livia's portraiture and representations see: Rolf Winkes, Livia, Octavia, Iulia- Porträts und Darstellungen- (Archaeologia Transatlantica XIII) Louvain-la-Neuve and Providence 1995.

Around 42 BC she married Tiberius Claudius Nero, her cousin of patrician status. After the civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar, Claudius Nero was in the opposite side of Augustus. The family survived the prosecutions and met Augustus in 39 BC. At this time, Livia already had a son, the future emperor Tiberius, and was pregnant of the second (Drusus the Elder). Legend said that Augustus fell immediately in love with her and they got married the day after both their divorces were announced. Apparently, Claudius Nero agreed to let her go and was present at the wedding. Theimportance of the patrician Claudii to Augustus' cause against opposition, and the political survival of Claudius Nero are probably the more rational explanations for the tempestuous union. Nevertheless, Livia and Augustus remained married for the next 52 years, despite the fact that they had no children, and she always enjoyed the status of a privileged councillor to her husband.

Livia, Roman empress
After Mark Antony's suicide following the Actium in 31 BC, Augustus met no opposition to his increasing power, eventually becoming Roman Emperor always with Livia by his side. Together, they formed the role model for Rome. Despite his riches and power, Augustus and his family continued to live modestly in their house on the Palatine Hill. Livia would set the pattern for the noble Roman matrona. She wore neither excessive jewellery nor pretentious costumes, she took care of the household and her husband (often making herself his own clothes), she paid no attention to his notorious womanising, always faithful and dedicated.

In 35 BC Augustus gave Livia the unprecedented honour to rule her own finances, dedicated a public statue to her. She had her own circle of clients and pushed many protégés into political offices, including Otho's grandfather and Galba himself.

With Augustus being the father of only one daughter (Julia Caesaris by Scribonia), Livia revealed herself to be an ambitious mother and soon started to push her own sons, Tiberius and Drusus into power. Rumor had it that she secretly was the cause of death for the original successors, Augustus' nephew. Tiberius was adopted by his stepfather in AD 4 and married Julia in AD 11. Drusus was a trustedgeneral and married Augustus' favourite niece, Antonia Minor. One by one, all the sons of Julia Caesaris by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa died, and Tiberius was nominated heir to the Empire. Tacitus charges that Livia was not altogether innocent of these deaths and others, but there is no other support from either contemporary historians or even later ones with access to official documents (like Suetonius). Most modern historical accounts of her life discount the idea.

Widow
Augustus died in AD 14, being deified by the senate shortly afterwards. In his will, he left one-third of his property to Livia, and the other two-thirds to the successor Tiberius. In the will, he also adopted her into the Julian family, thus turning her into a patrician, and granted her the honorific title of Augusta. These dispositions permitted her to maintain her status and power after his death.

For some time, Livia and her son Tiberius, the new Emperor, got along with each other. Speaking against her became treason in 20 and, in 24 he granted his mother a theatre seat among the Vestal Virgins. Eventually, Tiberius became resentful of his mother's political status, particularly against the idea that it was her who had given him the throne. He forbade the senate to call her Augusta and removed most of the privileges granted by Augustus.

When Livia died in 29, Tiberius had already revealed his cruel nature. He was governing Rome by proxy from Capri and refused to come to her funeral. Later he vetoed all the honours the senate had granted her after her death and cancelled the fulfilment of her will. Her villa north of Rome is still a spectacular site.

Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Roman Emperor was born on 16 November 042 BCE in Fondi, Italy. He died on 16 March 037, at age 78.

Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar (November 16, 42 BC?March 16, AD 37) was the second Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from AD 14 until his death(AD 37). Tiberius was by birth a Claudian?son of Tiberius Nero and Livia?and was the adopted heir of Augustus, who was a Julian. The subsequent emperors who were related in varying degrees to both families were members of this blended dynasty.

Life
Tiberius received his position through his mother, who was Augustus's second wife. Tiberius became one of his step-father's principal lieutenants, leading military campaigns in Germany and on the Danube. In pursuance of their family policy, he was compelled by politics in 12 BC to divorce his first wife, Vipsania, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and marry Julia, daughter of Augustus and widow of the same Agrippa (and, thus, his own step-sister and his first wife's step-mother), but that marriage failed. Tiberius went into self-imposed exile on Rhodes.

He returned several years later, following the death of Julia's sons by Agrippa, Gaius and Lucius, and was made Augustus's heir. When he became Emperor following Augustus's death in AD 14, the saturnine Tiberius quickly became unpopular, and when his nephew Germanicus was murdered in the East in AD 19, suspicions were voiced that Tiberius had had a role in his death.

Tiberius spent much of the latter part of his reign in self-exile on the island of Capri. The city of Rome was controlled in his place by Sejanus, the head of the Praetorian Guards. Sejanus, who was rumored to have poisoned Tiberius's only son, Drusus in AD 23, and certainly carried on an affair with Drusus's widow, Tiberius's niece Livilla, launched a reign of terror against possible political enemies. Germanicus's widow, Agrippina, and her elder sons, Nero Caesar and Drusus, were exiled to small islands, where they died.

Sejanus, in fact, plotted to take control of the Empire, but his plans were foiled thanks to a timely warning to Tiberius from his sister-in-law, Antonia, and instead Sejanus and his supporters were arrested and executed in AD 31.

After having most of his potential successors killed, Tiberius summoned his grand-nephew Caligula and grandson Gemellus to Capri. Suetonius writes how Tiberius engaged in extreme sexual perversions onCapri, but he is an often-unreliable source and it is unknown if his reports are true.

Tiberius died on March 16, AD 37. Ancient sources like Suetonius and Tacitus report that Caligula and/or his guard Macro smothered Tiberius with a pillow. Most likely Tiberius died a natural death.

In his will Tiberius left the empire to both Caligula and Gemellus, but soon after becoming Emperor, Caligula had Tiberius's will declared void and later had Gemellus killed.

Continuing legacy
In the Bible, Tiberius is mentioned by name only once, in Luke 3:1 (stating that John the Baptist entered on his public ministry in the fifteenth year of his reign). However, since it was during his reign that Jesus preached, many references to Caesar (or the emperor in some other translations), without further specification, actually refer to Tiberius.

The town Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee was named in Tiberius's honour by Herod Antipas.

Tiberius has appeared in the movies Ben-Hur, Caligula (played by Peter O'Toole), and I, Claudius (played by George Baker).

In the popular science-fiction television show "Star Trek", Captain James T. Kirk's middle name is Tiberius; according to the series, Kirk's grandfather was a historian fascinated by the emperor.

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Nero Claudius Drusus I Germanicus was born in 038 BCE in Lyons, France. He died in 009 BCE, at age ~29.

Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, born Decimus Claudius Drusus and variously called Drusus, Drusus I or Drusus the Elder (38 - 9 BC) was the younger son of Livia, wife of Augustus Caesar, and her firs thusband, Tiberius Claudius Nero. However he was born shortly after Livia had divorced him and married Augustus. So rumors suspected Augustus to be the real father, providing his motivation for a sudden marriage to an already pregnant married woman. According to Suetonius, he was born with the praenomen Decimus, but it was later changed to Nero.

Drusus later married Antonia Minor, the daughter of Mark Antony and Augustus's sister, Octavia. Their children were Germanicus, Livilla, and the future Emperor Claudius.

Drusus, like his brother Tiberius, was a skilled general, campaigning in Germany and along the Danube. He died on campaign against the Marcomanni in consequence of a fall from a horse. He was extremely popular with the legionaries, who erected a monument in Moguntiacum (modern Mainz) on his behalf. Augustus later wrote a biography of him which does not survive.

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Genetic Evidence that Augustus was the biological father of Drusus
Augustus was infamous for being chronically "sickly" (although he lived to be 77, and records of the symptoms he suffered from match those of Wilson's disease, an autosomal recessive genetic disease).

Augustus only had one known biological child; Julia Caesaris. She gave birth to the five grandchildren (3 boys, 2 girls) of Augustus, whom he adopted as his heirs. The elder two boys died before theycame of age, and the third was considered unsuitable (perhaps he was mentally ill). One of these granddaughters of Augustus was Agrippina the Elder.

Tiberius was already 4 when Augustus married Livia, while she supposedly was already pregnant with Drusus. Drusus' son was Germanicus, and Germanicus married Agrippina the Elder. Their son was Caligula.

Caligula, often called "the Mad Emperor", was affected by more severe symptoms that match with Wilson's disease; apart from the intestinal problems and immune system weakness of Augustus, he was mentally unstable and suffered from psychosis.

Because Wilson's disease is recessive autosomal, each of his parents would have to have been a latent carrier for the disease. It is entirely possible that Agrippina inherited the allele for Wilson'sdisease from her grandfather Augustus, but the only way Caligula could have Wilson's disease is if his father Germanicus was also a carrier. As it is a rare disease, it is unlikely that Germanicus inherited it from his normal-type mother. Thus Germanicus had to have been given the allele by Drusus, and the only way that Drusus could have the allele for Wilson's disease is if he got it from his biological parent: Augustus. This linkage shows that Augustus was Drusus' biological father.

Nero also probably suffered from Wilson's disease, and he was the son of Caligula's sister Agrippina the Younger and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. Claudius, brother of Germanicus, probably also suffered symptoms of Wilson's disease, lending further proof to the genetic mapping. (Compare this pedigree to that of, say, the presence of the hemophilia gene in the monarchs of Europe descended from QueenVictoria).

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Claudia Marcella Minor was born in 043 BCE. She died.

Cleopatra VII Philopator, The Last Pharoah, was born in December 070 BCE. She died on 12 August 030 BCE, at age 39.

Cleopatra VII Philopator ( December, 70 BC or January, 69 BC?August 12?, 30 BC) was queen of ancient Egypt. She was the last member of the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty and hence the last Greek ruler of Egypt. Her father was Ptolemy XII Auletes, and her mother was probably Auletes's sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaena. The name Cleopatra is Greek for "father's glory".

Today she is probably the most famous of all of ancient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply Cleopatra, all of her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ruler of Egypt; she only co-ruled with her father, brother, brother-husband, and son. However, in all these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.

Cleopatra is distinguishable as the last of three women ever to use the title Pharaoh. Her predecessors were Nitocris of the Sixth Dynasty and Hapshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

History
Cleopatra VII was Greek and born in Egypt, took the throne alone at the death of her father Ptolemy XII in spring 51 BC. She was at the time the oldest child of Auletes, since two older sisters had died. She also had one younger sister whose name was Arsinoë. She was first briefly co-ruler with her father. She was subsequently co-ruler with two of her brothers, Ptolemy XIII, who opposed the Romandomination, and Ptolemy XIV. Since the Ptolomaic throne was transmited in matrilinear fashion, the Kings had to marry their sisters in order to be qualified to rule. Following the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion (44?30 BC).

In 48 BC, the advisors of Ptolemy XIII, led by the eunuch Pothinus, removed Cleopatra's power and forced her to flee Egypt. Her sister Arsinoë accompanied her. Later that year, however, Ptolemy imperiled his own power by injudiciously meddling in the affairs of Rome. When Pompey, fleeing the victorious Julius Caesar, arrived in Alexandria seeking sanctuary, Ptolemy had him murdered in order to ingratiate himself with Caesar. Caesar was so repelled by this treachery that he seized the Egyptian capital and imposed himself as arbiter between the rival claims of Ptolemy and Cleopatra. (It should be noted that Pompey had been married to Caesar's daughter, who died giving birth to their son). After a short war, Ptolemy XIII was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIVas new co-ruler.

Caesar wintered in Egypt in 48 BC?47 BC, and Cleopatra shored up her political advantage by becoming his lover. Egypt remained independent, but three Roman legions were left to protect it. Cleopatra'swinter liaison with Caesar produced a son whom they named Ptolemy Caesar (nicknamed Caesarion, little Caesar). However, Caesar refused to make the boy his heir, naming his grand-nephew Octavian instead.

Cleopatra and Caesarion visited Rome between 46 BC and 44 BC and were present when Caesar was assassinated. Before or just after she returned to Egypt, Ptolemy XIV died mysteriously. Cleopatra then made Caesarion her co-regent. She may have poisoned her brother.

In 42 BC, Mark Antony, one of the triumvirs who ruled Rome in the power vacuum following Caesar's death, summoned Cleopatra to meet him in Tarsus to answer questions about her loyalty. Cleopatra arrived in great state, and so charmed Antony that he chose to spend the winter of 42 BC?41 BC with her in Alexandria. During the winter, she became pregnant with twins, who were named Cleopatra Selene andAlexander Helios.

Four years later, in 37 BC, Antony visited Alexandria again while en route to make war with the Parthians. He renewed his relationship with Cleopatra, and from this point on Alexandria would be his home. He may have married Cleopatra according to the Egyptian rite (a letter quoted in Suetonius suggests this), although he was at the time, married to Octavia, sister of his fellow triumvir Octavian.He and Cleopatra had another child, Ptolemy Philadelphus. At the Donations of Alexandria in late 34 BC, following Antony's conquest of Armenia, Cleopatra and Caesarion were crowned co-rulers of Egyptand Cyprus; Alexander Helios was crowned ruler of Armenia, Media, and Parthia; Cleopatra Selene was crowned ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya; and Ptolemy Philadelphus was crowned ruler of Phoenicia, Syria, and Cilicia. Cleopatra also took the title of Queen of Kings.

There are a number of unverifiable but famous stories about Cleopatra, of which one of the best known is that, at one of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony, she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million sesterces on a dinner. He accepted the bet. The next night, she had a conventional, unspectacular meal served; he was ridiculing this, when she ordered the second course ? only a cup of strong vinegar. She then removed one of her priceless pearl earrings, dropped it into the vinegar, allowed it to dissolve, and drank the mixture.

Antony's behaviour was considered outrageous by the Romans, and Octavian convinced the senate to levy war against Egypt. In 31 BC Antony's forces faced the Romans in a naval action off the coast of Actium. Cleopatra was present with a fleet of her own, but when she saw that Antony's poorly equipped and manned ships were losing to the Romans' superior vessels, she took flight. Antony abandoned the battle to follow her.

The Death of Cleopatra by Reginald ArthurFollowing the battle of Actium, Octavian invaded Egypt. As he approached Alexandria, Antony's armies deserted to Octavian. Cleopatra and Antony both committed suicide, Cleopatra by using a snake to poison herself on August 12, 30 BC. Cleopatra's son by Caesar, Caesarion was executed by Octavian. The three children of Cleopatra with Antony were spared and taken back to Rome where they were reared by Antony's wife, Octavia.

It is often said that Cleopatra used an asp to kill herself. "Asp" technically refers to a variety of venomous snakes, but here, it refers to the Egyptian cobra, which was sometimes used to execute criminals. There is also a story that Cleopatra asked several of her servants to test out various forms of suicide, before choosing the method which she believed to be most effective.

A Macedonian Greek by language and culture, Cleopatra is reputed to have been the first member of her family in their 300-year reign in Egypt to have learned the Egyptian language.

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Marcus Livius III Drusus was born about 120 BCE in Rome. He died.

Servilia was born about 110 BCE in Rome, Italy. She died.

Appius Claudius Nero was born about 145 BCE. He died.

Lucius Livius Drusus was born about 118 BCE in Rome, Italy. He died.

Marcus Livius II Drusus was born about 150 BCE in Rome. He died.

Livia of Rome was born about 115 BCE in Rome. She died.

Cornelia of Rome was born about 140 BCE in Rome. She died.

Gaius Livius Drusus was born about 180 BCE in Rome. He died.

Marcus Livius Drusus was born about 210 BCE in Rome, Italy. He died.

Marcus of Rome was born about 240 BCE in Rome, Italy. He died.

Calavia of Rome was born about 230 BCE in Rome, Italy. She died.

Quintus Servilius Caepio was born about 140 BCE in Rome. He died.

Metella was born about 135 BCE in Rome. She died.

Quintus Servilius Caepio was born about 105 BCE in Rome. He died.

Gaius Antonius II Crecitus was born about 175 BCE. He died.

Gaius Antonius Crecitus was born about 210 BCE. He died.

Lucius Antonius Crecitus was born about 250 BCE. He died.