Gaius Caesar
Gaius Caesar (20 BCE - 4 CE): name of a Roman prince, grandson of the emperor Augustus.
Life
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Gaius Caesar - 17: Adopted by Augustus
- 13: Organizes, together with Tiberius, games
- 12: Augustus offers games in honor of Gaius and his brother Lucius Caesar
- 12 Death of Agrippa; Julia marries Tiberius
- 8: Visit to Gaul
- 7: Organizes, together with Gnaeus Piso, games
- 6: Made priest
- Crisis in Armenia, the pro-Parthian king Tigranes IV had come to power
- 1 BCE: Marries Livilla; travels to the East (in his company are Marcus Lollius, Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, Sejanus, and Velleius Paterculus)
- Meeting with king Phraataces of Parthia on an island in the Euphrates.note
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Cenotaph of Gaius in Limyra - 2: Intervention in Armenia
- 3: Attack on Artagira;note he is wounded in a skirmish
- 4, 21 or 22 February: death in Limyra (Lycia)
- Gaius is buried in Rome in the Mausoleum of Augustus; in Limyra, a cenotaph is erected