Britannicus
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus( c. 12 February AD 41 – 11 February AD 55), usually called Britannicus, was the son of Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina.
For a time he was considered his father's heir, but that changed after his mother's downfall in 48, when it was revealed she had engaged in a bigamous marriage without Claudius' knowledge.
The next year, his father married Agrippina the Younger, Claudius' fourth and final marriage.
Their marriage was followed by the adoption of Agrippina's son, Lucius Domitius, whose name became Nero as a result.
His step- brother would later be married to his sister Octavia, and soon eclipsed him as Claudius' heir.
Following his father's death in October 54, Nero became emperor.
The sudden death of Britannicus shortly before his fourteenth birthday is reported by all extant sources as a poisoning on Nero's orders—as Claudius' natural son, he represented a threat to Nero's claim to the throne.
Julia Drusilla
Julia Drusilla (Classical Latin:) (16 September AD 16 – 10 June AD 38) was a member of the Roman imperial family, the second daughter and fifth child of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder to survive infancy.
She had two sisters, Julia Livilla and the Empress Agrippina the Younger, and three brothers, Emperor Caligula, Nero Julius Caesar, and Drusus.
She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, grand-niece of the Emperor Tiberius, niece of the Emperor Claudius, and aunt of the Emperor Nero.
Aemilia Lepida (fiancee of Claudius)
Aemilia Lepida( 5 BC – c. 43 AD) was a noble Roman woman and matron.
She was the eldest daughter and first- born child of Julia the Younger( the first granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus) and consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus.
Her father was of a distinguished and ancient patrician family.
She was the first great- grandchild of Emperor Augustus, noblewoman Scribonia and a great- grandchild of consul Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus( brother of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus).
Aemilia Lepida was the sister of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus( 6 -39) who was married to Caligula's favorite sister Drusilla and who was executed in Caligula's reign.
In her younger years, Lepida was betrothed to Claudius, but her parents fell out of favour with Augustus so the emperor broke off the engagement.
In AD 8, her mother Julia the Younger( otherwise called Vipsania Julia) was exiled for adultery, like her own mother Julia.
Her father Lucius was executed in 14 for participating in a conspiracy against Augustus.
By AD 13, Lepida had married Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, a member of the patrician branch of the ancient gens Junia.
Their children were:
The time of her death is not known.
She is sometimes said to have been poisoned on the orders of Agrippina the Younger during the reign of Nero, but this Lepida was evidently Domitia Lepida, the mother of Valeria Messalina and the" second" wife of Appius Junius Silanus.
Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus
Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus was a consul of the Roman Empire in 37 AD, with Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus as his colleague; that was the year Tiberius died.
Proculus is possibly a descendant of the Cn. Acerronius whom Cicero mentions in his oration for Tullius," Pro Tullio", from 71 BC, as a" vir optimus".
He may also have been the father of Acerronia Polla, a friend of Agrippina the Younger, whom the emperor Nero had murdered in AD 59.
Agrippina the Younger
Agrippina the Younger (Latin: "Julia Agrippina"; 6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59), also referred to as Agrippina Minor ("smaller", often used to mean "younger") was a Roman empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Her father was Germanicus, a popular general and one-time heir apparent to the Roman Empire under Tiberius; and her mother was Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of the first Roman emperor Augustus.
She was also the younger sister of Caligula, as well as the niece and fourth wife of Claudius.
Both ancient and modern sources describe Agrippina's personality as ruthless, ambitious, violent, and domineering.
Physically she was a beautiful and reputable woman; according to Pliny the Elder, she had a double canine in her upper right jaw, a sign of good fortune.
Many ancient historians accuse Agrippina of poisoning her husband Claudius, though accounts vary.
She briefly served as the de facto ruler of Rome during the reign of her son, emperor Nero.
In AD 59 Agrippina was executed on the orders of Nero.
Julia the Younger
Julia the Younger( Classical Latin:) or Julilla( little Julia), Vipsania Julia Agrippina, Julia, Augustus' granddaughter, or Julia Minor( 19 BC – c. AD 29), was a Roman noblewoman of the Julio- Claudian dynasty.
She was the first daughter and second child of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.
Along with her sister Agrippina the Elder, Julia was raised and educated by her maternal grandfather Augustus and her maternal step- grandmother Livia Drusilla.
Julia the Younger was the elder granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, stepdaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, maternal aunt of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, second cousin of the Emperor Claudius, and maternal great- aunt of the Emperor Nero.
Germanicus
Germanicus (Latin: "Germanicus Julius Caesar"; 24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19) was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the Roman Empire, who was known for his campaigns in Germania.
The son of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, Germanicus was born into an influential branch of the patrician "gens Claudia".
The agnomen "Germanicus" was added to his full name in 9 BC when it was posthumously awarded to his father in honor of his victories in Germania.
In AD 4, he was adopted by his paternal uncle, Tiberius, who succeeded Augustus as Roman emperor a decade later.
As a result, Germanicus became an official member of the "gens Julia", another prominent family which he was related to on his mother's side.
His connection to the Julii was further consolidated through a marriage between himself and Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus.
He was also the nephew of Tiberius, the older brother of Claudius, the father of Caligula, and the maternal grandfather of Nero.
During the reign of Augustus, Germanicus enjoyed an accelerated political career as the heir of the emperor's heir, entering the office of quaestor five years before the legal age in AD 7.
He held that office until AD 11, and was elected consul for the first time in AD 12.
The year after, he was made proconsul of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior, and all of Gaul.
From there he commanded eight legions, about one-third of the entire Roman army, which he led against the Germanic tribes in his campaigns from AD 14 to 16.
He avenged the Roman Empire's defeat in the Teutoburg Forest and retrieved two of the three legionary eagles that had been lost during the battle.
In AD 17 he returned to Rome where he received a triumph before leaving to reorganize the provinces of Asia Minor, whereby he incorporated the provinces of Cappadocia and Commagene in AD 18.
While in the eastern provinces, he came into conflict with the governor of Syria, Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso.
During their feud, Germanicus became ill in Antioch, where he died on 10 October AD 19.
His death has been attributed to poison by ancient sources, but that was never proven.
As a famous general, he was widely popular and regarded as the ideal Roman long after his death.
To the Roman people, Germanicus was the Roman equivalent of Alexander the Great due to the nature of his death at a young age, his virtuous character, his dashing physique, and his military renown.
Crepereius Gallus
Crepereius Gallus was a Roman notable in the first century AD and an associate of Agrippina, the mother of the emperor Nero.
His entire contribution to written history is contained in a single chapter of the Annals of the historian Tacitus, who describes the plot to kill Agrippina through the mechanism of a collapsing boat.
Crepereius Gallus is introduced and dies within the course of a single sentence:" nec multum erat progressa nauis, duobus e numero familiarum Agrippinam comitantibus, ex quis Crepereius Gallus haud procul gubernaculis adstabat, Acerronia super pedes cubitantis reclinis paenitentiam filii et reciperatam matris gratiam per gaudium memorabat, cum dato signo ruere tectum loci multo plumbo graue, pressusque Crepereius et statim exanimatus est."
The boat had not gone very far and two members of Agrippina's household were present- Crepereius Gallus was standing not far from the helm; Acerronia was reclining over the feet of Agrippina as she lay and was describing joyfully the repentance of her son and the mother's recovery of favour- when, after a signal had been given, the roof of this part of the boat, which was laden down with much lead, fell, and Crepereius was crushed and died instantly.
In 1964, it was suggested that he may be identical with the" procurator Augusti", C. Crepereius Gallus, honoured on an inscription from Antioch of Pisidia, but this can not be confirmed.
The authors of the same article describe his role in recorded history as' insignificant, passive, and brief'.
Little is known about the Crepereius family other than that it was equestrian.
Other family members include Marcus Crepereius, a judge in the case of Verres as mentioned by Cicero( in Verres 1.10).
Also, the name Q. Crepereius M. F. Rocus has been found on several coins depicting Venus and Neptune which could relate him to Corinth.
Sextus Afranius Burrus
Sextus Afranius Burrus( born AD 1 in Vasio, Gallia Narbonensis; died AD 62) was a prefect of the Praetorian Guard and was, together with Seneca the Younger, an advisor to the Roman emperor Nero, making him a very powerful man in the early years of Nero's reign.
Agrippina the Younger chose him as Prefect in 51 to secure her son Nero's place as emperor after the death of Claudius.
For the first eight years of Nero's rule, Burrus and Nero's former tutor Seneca helped maintain a stable government.
Burrus acquiesced to Nero's murder of Agrippina the Younger but lost his influence over Nero anyway.
He died in 62, some say from poison.
The cognomen" Burrus" is the Latin version of the name Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
Acerronia Polla
Acerronia Polla was a servant and friend of Agrippina the Younger, the mother of Nero.
She was drowned in AD 59, when an unsuccessful attempt was made at the same time to drown Agrippina.
She may have been the daughter of Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus, consul in AD 37.
Tacitus' account indicates that Agrippina the Younger had set sail on a cruise on which Nero had secreted conspirators intent on killing her.
Agrippina and Acerronia, along with the steersman Crepereius Gallus, were underneath a canopy on deck which had been secretly weighted with lead.
At a given signal, the canopy fell, killing the steersman, but missing Agrippina and Acerronia because of the high- backed couch they had been sitting on.
There had been a mechanism designed to scuttle the ship, although it malfunctioned, and the conspirators failed in their further efforts to sink the craft.
Meanwhile, Agrippina and Acerronia entered the water.
Acerronia called out, claiming that she was Agrippina.
The conspirators struck her with poles and oars until she had either been bludgeoned to death or drowned.
Agrippina, wounded in the shoulder, managed to swim to a passing fishing boat.
The account of Cassius Dio is fundamentally the same, although he does indicate that the boat was in fact scuttled, and that Acerronia drowned.
He also mentions nothing about Agrippina being rescued by a passing boat, and instead claims she swam all the way to shore on her own.

Question: Where did Agrippina The Younger's father die?