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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (father of Nero)

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54: 330: 358:, was born on 15 December AD 37 in Antium. According to Suetonius, when Domitius was congratulated by his friends for the birth of his son he replied that any child born to him and Agrippina would have a detestable nature and become a public danger, a fact that became true during the second part of Nero's reign. When Nero 322:'s sister, after her thirteenth birthday in AD 28. He was far older than her at the time. Tiberius arranged and ordered the marriage, which was celebrated in Rome. Domitius was wealthy, but apparently he and Agrippina chose to live between 413:
Agrippina later married her widowed uncle Claudius. Her son Lucius was adopted by the elderly Claudius and renamed Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. When Claudius died on 13 October AD 54, Nero succeeded him as Nero Claudius Caesar
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and married him as a wife, Suetonius quoted one Roman who lived around this time who remarked that the world would have been better off if Nero's father had married someone more like the castrated boy.
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Domitius' birthdate is uncertain; some interpretations are that he was born around 17 BC while other sources argue he was born a generation later in 2 BC. Domitius was the son of
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city) in January AD 41. In Domitius' will, Nero inherited one third of his estate, but Caligula, who was also mentioned in the will, took Nero's inheritance for himself. When
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for refusing to drink as much as he was told. The reported reason was that the freedman did not get as drunk as Domitius did. On the
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may have been an older brother of his and not Nero's father. Gaius Stern claims that the Eastern expedition is actually that of
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in AD 17–19, if one assumes his birth to be in 2 BC and still interpret the violent actions to belong to Nero's father.
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During his lifetime, Domitius did not enjoy a good reputation. He was accused of being the accomplice of
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with his sister and also with adultery with another noblewoman, but the ascension of Caligula saved him.
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Gaius Stern, "Nero's Father, the Ara Pacis, and the Ravenna Relief," CAAS 2015.
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Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Nero, c. 110 C.E.
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says that as a young man, Domitius was serving on the staff of his second
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in early AD 37. His son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, later emperor
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R. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, Oxford, 1989, s. 155—156.
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Roman Women: The Women who influenced the History of Rome
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For other people named Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, see
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Describing him as "a man loathsome in every respect",
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (disambiguation)

Agrippina the Younger
Issue
Nero
Dynasty
Julio-Claudian
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
Antonia Major
Julio-Claudian dynasty
Ancient Rome
Antonia Major
Augustus
Octavia Minor
Mark Antony
Agrippina the Younger
Nero
Antonia Major
Augustus
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
Domitia
Domitia Lepida
Suetonius
cousin
Gaius Caesar
freedman
Appian Way
child
Roman Forum

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