claim: Nero is a person.
evidence: The term Julio-Claudian dynasty refers to the first five Roman emperors -- Augustus , Tiberius , Caligula , Claudius , and Nero -- or the family to which they belonged .. Augustus. Augustus. Nero. Nero. Tiberius. Tiberius. Caligula. Caligula. Claudius. Claudius. family. Julio-Claudian family tree. They ruled the Roman Empire from its formation under Augustus in the second half of the 1st century -LRB- 44 / 31 / 27 -RRB- BC , until AD 68 when the last of the line , Nero , committed suicide .. Roman Empire. Roman Empire. Augustus. Augustus. Nero. Nero. Primogeniture is notably absent in the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty .. Primogeniture. Primogeniture. Neither Augustus , Caligula or Nero fathered a natural and legitimate son ; Tiberius ' own son , Drusus , predeceased him ; only Claudius was outlived by his son , Britannicus , although he opted to promote his adopted son , Nero , as his successor to the throne .. Augustus. Augustus. Nero. Nero. Tiberius. Tiberius. Caligula. Caligula. Claudius. Claudius. Drusus. Drusus Julius Caesar. Britannicus. Britannicus. Adoption ultimately became a tool that most Julio-Claudian emperors utilized in order to promote their chosen heir to the front of the succession .. Adoption. Adoption in ancient Rome. Augustus , himself an adopted son of his great-uncle , the Roman dictator Julius Caesar , adopted his stepson and son-in-law Tiberius as his son and heir .. Caesar. Caesar ( title ). Augustus. Augustus. Tiberius. Tiberius. Roman dictator. Roman dictator. Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar. Tiberius was , in turn , required to adopt his nephew Germanicus , the father of Caligula .. Tiberius. Tiberius. Caligula. Caligula. Germanicus. Germanicus. Caligula adopted his cousin and Tiberius ' grandson Tiberius Gemellus shortly before executing him ; Claudius adopted his great nephew and stepson Nero , who , lacking a natural or adopted son of his own , ended the reign of the Julio-Claudian dynasty with his fall from power and subsequent suicide .. Nero. Nero. Tiberius. Tiberius. Caligula. Caligula. Claudius. Claudius. Tiberius Gemellus. Tiberius Gemellus. The ancient historians who dealt with this period -- chiefly Suetonius -LRB- c. 69 -- after 122 AD -RRB- and Tacitus -LRB- c. 56 -- after 117 AD -RRB- -- write in generally negative terms about their reign .. Suetonius. Suetonius. Tacitus. Tacitus. Tacitus wrote of the historiography of the Julio-Claudian emperors  :. Tacitus. Tacitus. But the successes and reverses of the old Roman people have been recorded by famous historians ; and fine intellects were not wanting to describe the times of Augustus , till growing sycophancy scared them away .. Augustus. Augustus. sycophancy. sycophancy. The histories of Tiberius , Caius , Claudius , and Nero , while they were in power , were falsified through terror , and after their death were written under the irritation of a recent hatred .. Nero. Nero. Tiberius. Tiberius. Claudius. Claudius