Agrippa Postumus

(12 BC-14 AD)

BIRTH

12 BC

PLACE

Rome, Italy

DEATH

14 AD

PLACE

Pianosa, Italy

FAMILY

STEP FATHER

Tiberius

(42 BC-37 AD)

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Agrippa Postumus was a grandson of Augustus, adopted by him in AD 4. His older brothers, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, were adopted by Augustus as his heirs. His mother was exiled in 2 BC, when he was about ten. Ancient writers describe Postumus as coarse and violent. Tacitus reports that it was unclear whether Tiberius, Livia or Augustus himself had ordered the killing. Immediately after Augustus died in AD 14, a centurion killed Postumus on Planasia.

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EARLY LIFE

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus was born in 12 BC in Rome, the youngest child of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus. He was called Postumus because he was born after his father's death. His older brothers, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, were adopted by Augustus as his heirs. Postumus grew up in the imperial household. His mother was exiled in 2 BC, when he was about ten. After the early deaths of Lucius in AD 2 and Gaius in AD 4, Augustus had to rethink the succession.

In AD 4 Augustus adopted both his stepson Tiberius and Agrippa Postumus, who took the name Marcus Julius Caesar Agrippa Postumus.

Ancient writers describe Postumus as coarse and violent. Around AD 6 or 7 Augustus disowned him and sent him into exile, first at Surrentum and then on the small island of Planasia, now Pianosa, near Elba, under guard.

Immediately after Augustus died in AD 14, a centurion killed Postumus on Planasia. Tacitus reports that it was unclear whether Tiberius, Livia or Augustus himself had ordered the killing.

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DEATH

In AD 4 Augustus adopted both his stepson Tiberius and Agrippa Postumus, who took the name Marcus Julius Caesar Agrippa Postumus. Around AD 6 or 7 Augustus disowned him and sent him into exile, first at Surrentum and then on the small island of Planasia, now Pianosa, near Elba, under guard. Agrippa Postumus was a grandson of Augustus, adopted by him in AD 4. His older brothers, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, were adopted by Augustus as his heirs. His mother was exiled in 2 BC, when he was about ten. Ancient writers describe Postumus as coarse and violent. Tacitus reports that it was unclear whether Tiberius, Livia or Augustus himself had ordered the killing. Immediately after Augustus died in AD 14, a centurion killed Postumus on Planasia. The main event and its setting are better documented than the precise final moments. Exact last words and private exchanges are not consistently preserved, so those details remain uncertain.