Gaius Caesar

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Gaius Caesar

See also Gaius Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar most commonly refers to* Gaius Julius Caesar , conqueror of Gaul, dictatorGaius Julius Caesar may also refer to* Gaius Julius Caesar , a fictionalized version of the above in the HBO/BBC2 series Rome, played by Ciar?n Hinds...
, for others of the same name.

Gaius Julius Caesar (20 BC - AD 4), most commonly known as Gaius Caesar or Caius Caesar, was the oldest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and minister to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus....
and Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus....
.. He was born with the name Gaius Vipsanius Agrippa, but when he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor

Lucius Caesar

Lucius Julius Caesar , most commonly known as Lucius Caesar, was the second son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. He was born with the name Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, but when he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus, his name was changed to Lucius Julius Caesar....
in 17 BC by their maternal grandfather, the Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor

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Early life

Gaius was adopted along with his brother Lucius Caesar

Lucius Caesar

Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
Augustus, who named the two boys his heirs. In 6 BC the Roman plebs agitated for Gaius to be created consul, despite the fact that he was only 14 and had not yet assumed the toga virilis. As a compromise, it was agreed that he should have the right to sit in the Senate House, and he was made consul designatus with the intention that he should assume the consulship in his twentieth year. Gaius was at this point created "Prince of Youth" ("princeps iuventutis"), an honorific that made him one of the symbolic heads of the equestrian order. Lucius, three years his junior, was granted the same honours after the appropriate interval had elapsed. Temples and statues were erected in their honour (as in the case of the Maison Carrée

Maison Carrée

The Maison Carr?e at N?mes in southern France is one of the best preserved temples to be found anywhere in the territory of the former Roman Empire....
in Nimes

Nîmes

N?mes is a city in southern France. It is the capital of the Gard Departments of France. N?mes has a rich history, dating back to the Roman Empire, and it is a popular tourist destination....
). In 1 BC he was made army commander and with the king Ariobarzanes

Ariobarzanes

Ariobarzanes is name of the Persian Empire satrap who fought Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Persian Gate on his way to Persepolis .Ariobarzanes is the name of a number of ancient kings or satraps members of the Mithridatic dynasty that ruled Pontus....
, whom he gave power over the Armenians and offered an island to the Euphrates

Euphrates

The Euphrates is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which flows from Anatolia....
. In 1 AD, he was made Consul

Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
with Lucius Aemilius Paullus

Lucius Aemilius Paullus

There have been several people named 'Lucius Aemilius Paulus':* Lucius Aemilius Paullus * Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, his son* Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, consul in 50 BC...
as his colleague.

In 1 BC, he married his relative, Livilla

Livilla

Livia Julia , most commonly known by her family nickname of Livilla was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor. Her chief role in the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty was as a bride ? and alleged murderer ? of the heir apparent to the Principate during the reigns of Augustus and her uncle Tiberius....
, daughter of Drusus the Elder

Nero Claudius Drusus

Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus , born Decimus Claudius Drusus also called Drusus, Drusus I, Nero Drusus, or Drusus the Elder was a Roman Empire politician and military commander....
and Antonia Minor

Antonia Minor

Antonia Minor , also known as Antonia the Younger or simply Antonia was a daughter of Ancient Rome politician Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, sister of roman emperor Augustus, and mother of future emperor Claudius....
. This union had no issue.

Lucius died in AD 2 and Gaius died two years later in Lycia

Lycia

Lycia was a region in Anatolia in what are now the Provinces of Turkey of Antalya Province and Mugla Province on the southern coast of Turkey. It was a federation of ancient cities in the region and later a Roman province of the Roman Empire....
at the age of 24, after being wounded during a campaign in Artagira, Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
.

The death of both Gaius and Lucius, the Emperor's two most favored heirs, compelled Augustus to adopt his stepson, Tiberius

Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
, and his sole remaining grandson, Postumus Agrippa as his new respective heirs.

Gaius Caesar

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