Talk:Germanicus

message: "Tiberius" was the praenomen of Germanicus's younger brother (later the Emperor Claudius).
67.185.114.32 21:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Praenomen 

message: "...Drusus Caesar and Nero Caesar, assassinated by Tiberius..."
This is a bit of an overstatement.  Someone with editing powers needs to rephrase this.  
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Do people feel that Germanicus was assasinated? If so do you reckon it was all the doing of Piso or did Piso receive instructions for the death of Germanicus from Tiberius?
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Do people feel that Germanicus was assasinated? If so do you reckon it was all the doing of Piso or did Piso receive instructions for the death of Germanicus from Tiberius? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevol (talk • contribs) 12:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassinated? 

message: David Shotter, in his biography of Tiberius, gives a more negative assessment of Germanicus' character and achievements than does this article. I have amended and added to reflect this view. Please do not edit these changes without citing secondary sources (Tacitus and Suetonius need to be taken critically). --Iacobus 02:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Negative Assessment 

message: Following Germanicus' adoption by Tiberius and the name change resultant on his transferral from the gens Claudia into the gens Julia, he was known thereafter only as Germanicus Julius Caesar. He did not bear the agnomen "Claudianus". I have edited appropriately. 82.44.82.167 (talk) 00:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agnomen "Claudianus" 

message: This is disputed. While the date is known to be 24 May, the year may be either 16 BC (thus B. Levick (1966) Drusus Caesar and the adoptions of AD 4. Latomus 25: 227-255) or 15 BC (thus G.V. Sumner (1967) Germanicus and Drusus Caesar. Latomus 26: 413-423). I have edited to reflect this. 82.44.82.167 (talk) 16:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth not certain 

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 17:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: "Germanicus was a fool in the eyes of Tiberius and the senate which feared the Germans undescribably. But in the eyes of the citizens of Rome, the soldiers of Rome, and the commanders under and above Germanicus he was a brilliant strategist. By contradicting the bureaucrats and invading Germania, Germanicus Ceasar was the only commander of Rome to ever pass the Rhine and come back successful."
I have excised the above text from the article because it is unreferenced, poorly written, and contradicts the assessment of the only referenced source for the article (David Shotter's book on Tiberius). Please do not include this assessment in article without citing a secondary source.--Iacobus (talk) 05:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing assessment of German campaign 

message: "...but Tiberius' jealousy and fear of his cousin's popularity and increasing power was the true motive."
Its pure speculation and assumption. Tiberius allowed Germanicus a Triumph, he was given control of whole easter part of the empire and was considered his heir.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.143.115.86 (talk) 10:19, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This needs to be removed: 

message: He was born in Lugdunum, Gaul [...] is false.
Sources: 
* The Oxford companion to German literature. Page: 275
* Looting of Bones in the Teutoburg Forest. Page: 102
* Enciclopedia Italiana. Germànico, Giulio Cesare --Davide41 (talk) 22:28, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germanicus was born in Rome 

message: The lead suggests Germanicus recovered all three of the eagles lost at Teutoburg, but by the end of paragraph three, when he is recalled by Tiberius, he had only found two. --217.155.32.221 (talk) 10:40, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. --217.155.32.221 (talk) 09:25, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many eagles?  

message: Is he related to the original Julius Caesar? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:19, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: His adoptive father was Tiberius, his adoptive grandfather was Augustus, and his adoptive great-grandfather was Julius Caesar. Through a series of adoptions. Dimadick (talk) 20:47, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I had this question too. Thanks for answering. I went ahead and added it to the article. –Novem Linguae (talk) 09:50, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original