Vipsania Agrippina

(c. 36 BC-20 AD)

BIRTH

c. 36 BC

PLACE

Rome, Italy

DEATH

20 AD

PLACE

Rome, Italy

FAMILY

FATHER

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

(63 BC-12 BC)

MOTHER

Caecilia Attica

(b. 51 BCE)

HUSBAND

Tiberius

(42 BC-37 AD)

CHILDREN

Drusus the Younger

(c. 14 BC-23 AD)

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EARLY LIFE

Vipsania Agrippina was born around 36 BC, the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his first wife, Caecilia Attica, the daughter of Cicero's friend Titus Pomponius Atticus. She was betrothed as an infant to Tiberius, the stepson of Octavian, a match that tied Agrippa's family to the imperial household. Her father later married Augustus's daughter Julia, and Vipsania became a half sister of Julia's children. She married Tiberius around 20 or 19 BC, and the marriage was said to be a happy one.

Vipsania and Tiberius had a son, Drusus Julius Caesar, known as Drusus the Younger. In 11 BC, after the death of Agrippa, Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce Vipsania and marry Julia.

According to Suetonius, when Tiberius later saw Vipsania by chance, he followed her with tears in his eyes, and measures were taken so that he would never see her again.

Vipsania then married the senator Gaius Asinius Gallus and bore him several sons. She died in AD 20, the only one of Agrippa's children to die a natural death.

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DEATH

Vipsania Agrippina was the first wife of the future emperor Tiberius and the mother of Drusus the Younger. Vipsania and Tiberius had a son, Drusus Julius Caesar, known as Drusus the Younger. In 11 BC, after the death of Agrippa, Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce Vipsania and marry Julia. According to Suetonius, when Tiberius later saw Vipsania by chance, he followed her with tears in his eyes, and measures were taken so that he would never see her again. Vipsania then married the senator Gaius Asinius Gallus and bore him several sons. In 11 BC she married Gaius Asinius Gallus, a Senator and son of the famous orator Gaius Asinius Pollio. Vipsania Agrippina died in AD 20, a few days after the ovation of her son Drusus, which took place on 28 May. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.