succession

Question 1

Augustus

Answer 1

Initially Marcellus preferred,
- ‘to consolidate his power, Augustus raised Claudius Marcellus’ (Tac 1.3)
- married to Julia,
- skipping cursus honorum by 10 years,
- aedile at 18
- then dies in 23
Gaius and Lucius
- adopted in 17BC
- made prince of the youth in 5 and 2 bc (Tac 1.3)
Death of L in 2AD - Tib returns
Death of C in 4AD - adoption of Tib and Postumus
(Tac blames Livia for L+C deaths)
Postumus
- Postumus exiled in 7
- dies in 14
Tiberius
- Tiberius married to julia (forced) in 11, given trib power in 6 - retires to Rhodes
- receives trib power for life and pronsulare imperium in 13
- named heir to 2/3 of Aug’s estate (tib 23)
- suet adds that it is done ‘from necessity rather than from choice’
- Germanicus adopted by Tib
Death of Aug.

Question 2

Tiberius

Answer 2

Named two successors - Gaius and Gemellus - only gives Gaius quaestor, gemellus too young
Gaius appointed solely by the senate and the mob (Gaius 14)

Question 3

Claudius

Answer 3

Agrippina poisoned him to install Nero before the son of Messalina, Britannicus, could be installed.

Agrippina…desried to seize upon the principlaity beforhand for her own son Nero’
‘she thence compassed the death of Claudius’ (joe 20)