Given name: Tiberius
Claudius Nero
grandson of Marc
Antony,
grandson of Livia,
brother of Claudius &
father of Caligula.
Adopted son & designated heir of Tiberius
by order of Augustus.
Popular & successful general. Poisoned by wife of Tiberius'
ally, Calpurnius Piso.
References: Josephus,
Antiquities 18.54,
164, 206; 19.117, 223, 20.148;
_____, War 2.178.
Tacitus,
Annals
1-3.
Suetonius, Lives
of Caesars: Gaius Caligula 1-6.
Cassius Dio, Roman
History
56-57.
Other resources on line:
- Bust
of Germanicus - image in Barbara Mc Manus' Rome: Republic to
Empire (College of New Rochelle).