Drusus
Drusus (38-9 BCE): Roman prince, conqueror of Germania.
Full name: Nero (Decimus?) Claudius Drusus
Relatives
- Father: Tiberius Claudius Nero
- Mother: Livia
- Stepfather: Augustus
- Wife: Antonia Minor
- Son: Germanicus
- Daughter: Livia Julia (Livilla), married to Drusus the Younger
- Son: Claudius
Life
- 38, between 18 March and 13 April: Born (shortly after Livia had married Octavian)
- 18 Quaestor
- 16 Succeeds Tiberius as praetor after he has left Rome
- 15 Propraetor in the Raetian War; birth of Germanicus
- 13-11 Propraetor of the Rhine army (I Germanica, V Alaudae, XVII, XVIII, XIX); foundation of Nijmegen, Xanten, Moers-Asberg, Neuss, Bonn, Mainz
- 13 Census in Gaul
- 12 Dedication of the Altar of Roma and Augustus in Lyon; alliance with the Batavians; campaign against the Sugambri; treaties with the Frisians and Chaucinote
- 11 Praetor urbanus; renewed attack on the Sugambri; foundation of Holsterhausen and Oberadennote
- 10 Birth of Claudius; third campaign in Germania, from Mainz against the Chatti, and to the Sugambri again (Cassius Dio, 54.36.3)
- 9 Consul; fourth campaign in Germania; Drusus reaches the Elbe; death after fall from horsenote
- Cenotaph in Mainz, final burial place in the Mausoleum of Augustus
Other
- Arch of Drusus, Rome
- Cenotaph in Mainz
- Monument in La Turbie
- Canal of Drusus