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Stories from The Roman Emperors

1. How were the Julio-Claudian emperors related to Augustus? — Only Tiberius was Augustus’s son, and that by adoption. Caligula and Nero were his great-grandson and great-great-grandson through his daughter Julia, and Claudius his great-nephew through his sister Octavia.
2. How were Claudius and Agrippina the Younger related? — Uncle and niece: Claudius was the younger brother of Agrippina’s father Germanicus, both sons of Drusus the Elder and Antonia Minor — and in 49 he made her his wife.