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He was the father of the Roman Emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus ; grandfather to Germanicus , Drusus Julius Caesar , Livilla and the Roman Emperor Claudius ; great-grandfather to Emperor Caligula ; and great- great-grandfather to Nero . He served as Quaestor to Julius Caesar in 48 BC, commanding his fleet in the Alexandrian War. He achieved victory over the Egyptian navy, and was rewarded with a priesthood. Caesar further charged him with Roman Colonies in Gaul and in other provinces. Despite his service with Caesar, he was a republican and optimate at heart. Immediately after Caesar's murder in 44 BC, when it seemed that the assassins were triumphant, he suggested that they be rewarded for their services to the state. But because of his previous alliance with the dictator, he was allowed to be elected Praetor in 42 BC. Around this time, he married his relative Livia Drusilla , whose father Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was from the same gens. His son of the same name was born 16 November 42 BC, at Fondi, Italy . Shortly afterwards, the second triumvirate began to break down, causing a dangerous situation in Rome as the triumvirs went to battle with each other. Tiberius Nero was forced to choose sides, and in his distrust of Octavian , he cast his lot with Mark Antony . In 41 BC, He fled Rome with Livia and Tiberius in tow, joining Antony's brother Lucius in Perusia. Perusia was besieged by Octavian's men by the time Tiberius Nero arrived, and when the town fell in 40 BC, he was forced to flee first to Praeneste, and then Naples. In Naples, Tiberius Nero tried in vain to raise a slave battalion against Octavian, and then took refuge with Sextus Pompey , who was then acting as a pirate leader in Sicily. Nero and family joined Mark Antony soon after in Achaea . In 40 BC, Octavian and Mark Antony finally reconciled. After 3 years of fleeing from Octavian, Tiberius Nero returned to Rome with his wife and the younger Tiberius, aged 3. Octavian almost immediately took up an affair with Livia. Upon discovery of this tryst, Tiberius Nero was forced to give over his wife, who was five months pregnant with her second child. On the day that Tiberius and Livia were divorced, she married Octavian. Tiberius Nero gave his ex-wife away as if he were her father. He had agreed to forgo the traditional waiting period as long as he was given guardianship of the unborn child. Their second son was born in 38 BC, three months after the marriage. He was named Decimus Claudius Drusus, which was later changed to Nero Claudius Drusus . As agreed, Drusus was taken to his fathers home several months later. Tiberius Nero raised and educated his sons. When he died in 33 BC, his sons went to live with their mother and stepfather. The younger Tiberius delivered his funeral eulogy. In the future emperor Tiberius' coming of age, he staged 2 Gladiator ial contests, one at the Forum and other at the amphithreatre, in memory of his father and grandfather. |
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