Drusus Julius Caesar
Called Tiberius Drusus Julius Caesar to distinguish him from his uncle Drusus also Drusus the Younger (c. 15 BC, † July 1, 23 ) was the only son of the Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Agrippina Vipsania.
Drusus had been married for 4 or 5 AD with his cousin Livilla that just now widowed wife of Augustus ' deceased grandson and successor -designate Gaius Caesar. Her daughter Livia Julia was born shortly after the marriage.
Militarily and politically Drusus had some talent. In the year 13 he became a permanent member of the Roman Senate committee that Augustus had established for the current business of the Senate. Since Drusus belonged only to the Claudian branch of the imperial family, but not to the Julian branch, urged Augustus Tiberius to adopt his nephew Germanicus and to appoint as heir and thus exclude his son Drusus from the succession. While Tiberius favored his own son as a possible successor, preferred a majority of the court Germanicus and his wife Agrippina, which they saw as descendants of Mark Antony and Augustus for senior to the descendant of the Eques Atticus Drusus.
In the year 14, after the death of Augustus, Drusus suppressed the revolt of the legions in Pannonia. For this he was granted 16 together with Germanicus a Ovatio. Also on coins are both mapped together. In 15 he was consul, then in the years 17 to 20 governor of Illyricum.
Only in the year gave birth to 19 children Livilla again, the twins Tiberius and Germanicus Gemellus Gemellus, of which only Tiberius survived childhood. Tiberius saw secured in the birth of his grandson the hope of his own dynasty. There were therefore also marked coins with Drusus and his twins. The contrast Germanicus - trailer according to Tacitus saw the birth of the same direct descendants of Tiberius a reason to grief and sorrow. When Germanicus died in the same year, suspected his widow Tiberius to have poisoned her husband to make Drusus the only heir to the throne.
In 21 he was consul again, the following year he received the tribunicia potestas, which he was officially intended to be heir and co-regent. Tiberius withdrew increasingly, leaving his son the government. But that he put him out of the competition of the praetorian prefect Sejanus. Even before the birth of the twins Livilla allegedly had an affair with Sejanus. According to Tacitus, Sejanus had seduced her target in order to take revenge for a punch, the Drusus had put him in a fit of anger. He convinced Livilla of the need to poison her husband in order to overthrow Tiberius can. Drusus actually died in the year 23 Sejanus scattered rumors, Drusus did want to poison his father during a joint meal. As he had, however, warned Tiberius, the Emperor had the cups interchanged. Tiberius, who, according to Suetonius had no close paternal relationship with him, mourned supposedly not about him, but let him be buried with great pomp. That Sejanus tried to marry the widow Livilla, Tiberius banned.
The truth about Drusus ' death came only in the year 31 after Sejanus ' fall by his wife Apicata to light: Sejanus had poisoned him. Livilla and the alleged accomplices were executed, also completely innocent bystanders.
In the novel I, Claudius by Robert Graves Drusus also called Castor.