Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus

Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus († 42 BC, at Philippi ) was a senator of the late Roman Republic.

He came from the gens Claudia, probably the branch of Claudii Pulchri, and was adopted by a Livy, probably the younger Marcus Livius Drusus. Drusus Claudianus was married to a Alfidia, daughter of Marcus Alfidius from the Italian city- Fundi, with whom he had a daughter Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus.

In the year 50 BC Drusus led Claudianus a court; it is unclear whether he was a judge ordered it or praetor. In the spring of 45 BC, he was in Rome, where Cicero thought to buy Gardens of him. 43 BC he was proscribed by the triumvirs, and fled to the murderers of Caesar to Greece. After the defeat at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, he took his own life rather than surrender.

As a grandfather and great-grandfather of the Emperor Tiberius and Claudius Drusus Claudianus was honored in the early imperial period with statues.

Pedigree

  • (1) = 1 husband / wife
  • (2) = 2 husband / wife
  • × = Caesar's murderers
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