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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8109411, member: 98035&quot;]I don&#039;t think there is a &quot;right&quot; way to assemble this spaghetti bowl of a dynasty - it must have been confusing even for the ancient Romans!</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to go even further down the rabbit hole on these...</p><p><br /></p><p>Tiberius Claudius Nero was Tiberius&#039; grandfather</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410818[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Julius Caesar was the grandfather of Mark Antony, and I think a second cousin twice removed to Julius Caesar?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410819[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Marcius Philippus was Augustus&#039; stepfather</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410826[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Asinius Gallus was Vipsania&#039;s second husband, and claimed paternity over Drusus (minor) for a time. They had prominent children who mostly fell victim to the intrigues of the Imperial family</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410823[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Quinctilius Varus married another daughter of Agrippa, but little is known about their marriage which seems to have ended in divorce possibly with a child or two</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410822[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Fabius Maximus married Augustus&#039; step sister (daughter of Marcius Philippus)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410827[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Drusus had twin boys, Tiberius and Germanicus. Germanicus died in infancy, but Tiberius survived into the early reign of Caligula. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410821[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After the death of Drusus, Tiberius adopted Germanicus&#039; older brothers, Nero and Drusus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410820[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Julia the Elder doesn&#039;t appear on many coins, but she can be found [ATTACH=full]1410824[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Antonius Polemo II was a client king and great-grandson of Mark Antony who was smack in the middle of everything - in addition to being the cousin of most of the dynasty, he also was briefly a member of the Herodian dynasty of Judea, and then married into the Emesan royal priest family, *possibly* making him the ancestor of Julia Domna and Julia Maesa</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410825[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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