#marcus drusus

[psyrapmafia]

some sketch studies of male characters (bolan from hell on wheels, luca from peaky blinders, druses from raised by wolves, harvey from suits, and homelander from the boys)

[eagle-longing-for-siwa]

“No repair necessary.”

Raised by Wolves, S1E4: Nature’s Course

[behindfairytales]

DOMINA (s2) + historical references

[wolframpant]

Domina characters and their busts

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Servilia's ancestors appear to be gold-stealing brainless fuckboys on her father's side and...whatever this is...on her mother's:

Servilia and Her Family, Susan Treggiari, p. 52

[liviasdrusillas]

“father, you shouldn’t have left me alone like this. i’m not sure how much longer i can keep doing this. It’s eating me alive.”// domina 2.02

[catilinas]

oh colleen’s spectral fingerprints are all over this

[duxfemina]

Octavian propaganda made sure children inherited the father's name so they wouldn't have to admit it's not the Julio-Claudian Dynasty but actually the Antonian Dynasty (sans Tiberius)

[fotograrte]

Yesterday was the anniversary of Antonia Minor's birthday, the daughter of Marcus Antonius and Octavia. She was born on this day in 36 BC.

She never got to know her father as he divorced her mother in 32 BC and committed suicide in 30 BC.

Antonia Minor married Drusus (dead in 9BC) afterwards. They fathered three children: Germanicus, Livila and the Emperor Claudius.

[mourning-again-in-america]

Disappointing tbh that Illiminatus didn't go in on a bit of conspiricizing the Livian family of Rome

[catominor]

in the omegaverse roman republic there was a tribune who was murdered for advocating for omega political rights in a sort of marcus livius drusus type situation i think

[whencyclopedia]

Britannicus

Britannicus (41-55 CE) was the second child and only son born to the Roman emperor Claudius (r. 41-54 CE) and Valeria Messalina (c. 20-48 CE). Seen as a threat by Claudius' fourth wife, Agrippina the Younger (15-59 CE), and her son, the future Nero (r. 54-68 CE), Britannicus was poisoned the night before his 14th birthday.

Early Childhood

Born on 12 February 41 CE, he was originally named Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus; the name Britannicus was added after his father's invasion of Britain. In his The Twelve Caesars, the ancient historian Suetonius (69 to 130/140 CE) wrote, "Claudius would often pick little Britannicus up and show him to the troops or to the audience at the games either seated on his lap or held at arm's length" (197) Claudius had a son by his first wife Urgulanilla, but the boy died accidentally before coming of age, and Britannicus became the obvious choice to assume the purple upon the emperor's death. However, this would soon change when Claudius married his niece Agrippina the Younger (15-59 CE). The emperor's new wife brought with her a hidden agenda; she had high aspirations for her son, the future emperor Nero (r. 54-68 CE).

Agrippina the Younger was the daughter of Emperor Tiberius' (r. 14-37 CE) nephew Germanicus (15 BCE to 19 CE) and Agrippina the Elder (14 BCE to 33 CE), making her the great-granddaughter of Augustus (r. 27 BCE to 14 CE). Her marriage to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus produced one son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the future Nero (b. 37 CE). Gnaeus, who died when Nero was three, was extremely violent and was described by his contemporaries as "a despicable character." Two years after Domitius' birth, Agrippina was exiled by her brother Caligula (r. 37-41 CE). After Caligula's assassination in 41 CE, one of Claudius' first acts was to recall her. Her strong ties to the Julio-Claudians would pose a serious challenge to young Britannicus' position as the emperor's heir and, unfortunately for Britannicus, the highly aggressive Agrippina would stop at nothing until little Domitius upended his position. According to Matthew Dennison in his The Twelve Caesars, Agrippina "was not distracted by bodily appetites; arrogance and an undistracting focus steadied her performance." (156)

In 40 CE Domitius' father died of dropsy. Upon her return to Rome from exile, the widowed Agrippina married Gaius Passienus Crispus, who had recently divorced Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus' sister Domitia. The marriage ended before 47 CE, possibly due to poisoning. Agrippina inherited his vast wealth, making her extremely rich. Widowed twice, she set her sights on husband number three: her uncle Claudius. Claudius showed little interest in obtaining another wife; there was still strong competition for the old emperor: Aelia Paetina (his second wife) and Lollia Paulina (Caligula's third wife). Lollia would later be exiled on the orders of Agrippina where a suicide would soon follow. However, Claudius' financial secretary Marcus Pallas favored Agrippina, and on 1 January 49 CE, she became Claudius' fourth wife.

Having married the emperor, her next objective was to secure the adoption of her son, and on 28 February 50 CE, Lucius Domitius became Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar. Suetonius wrote, "In his last years, Claudius made it pretty plain that he repented of having married Agrippina and adopted Nero" (204). Realizing, the possible danger posed by Nero and his mother, Claudius told his son repeatedly "to grow up quickly." With the adoption of Nero secured, Agrippina turned her attention to the one serious obstacle to her son becoming the emperor: Britannicus.

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[p-clodius-pulcher]

What’s more gay, gay sex, or whatever was going on between Marcus Livius Drusus and Quintus Poppaedius Silo in Colleen McCullough’s masters of Rome series

[behindfairytales]

DOMINA (2021- ) Freedom (2.06)

[wolframpant]

Historical Male Characters in Domina (2021)

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Do you think there ever was a Roman soldier who after a battle came back to an empty tent? All his comrades... dead? Their tent, usually full of chatter and laughs now dead silent? No one to eat their meals with? No one to write their "hellos" on the margin of his letter to the family? Do you think that ever happened? Do you think he felt bad that there was no one to scold him for shedding a tear?

There probably were. It's likely that a 19-year-old Scipio Africanus experienced something like that after Cannae, a battle in which 75-90% of his comrades were either killed or captured.

Colleen McCullough dramatizes the Battle of Arausio this way in The First Man in Rome, when the two Roman commanders' inability to work together causes their army to be destroyed by the Cimbri tribe. It's brutal, but I love how she used it to characterize Marcus Livius Drusus and Quintus Poppaedius Silo. I didn't think I could like Drusus after [spoilers!], but she puts him through hell and gives him one heck of a redemption arc. I also really like how Silo's trauma informs his and other Italians' distrust of the Roman government, and why they try to break free with the Social War in the following book. The two men's shared friendship after the battle is really touching, too.