| Notes : | Was in Syria with her husband, Cn. *Calpurnius Piso(3), governor of the province, when *Germanicus and *Vipsania Agrippina (2) were in the east (18–19 ce). By temperament no less domineering than Agrippina, she was, moreover, a friend of *Livia Drusilla. It was inevitable, therefore, that she should quarrel with Agrippina, and when Germanicus died in ce 19 Agrippina accused her of murder.
Vipsania (A. maior), daughter of M. Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, born c. 14 BC, married Germanicus in AD 5, nine children (Suet. Calig. 7, stemma RE 9 A 1232). Was in Germania with her husband from AD 14-16 (Tac. Ann. 1,40,2) and from AD 17-19 in the East (Tac. Ann. 2,54,1; birth of Livilla on Lesbos), where she received numerous honours (IGRR 4,22 f.). In the winter of 19/20, she brought Germanicus' ashes to Rome (Tac. Ann. 2,75). She was referred to specifically in the tabula Siarensis with the honorific decrees for Germanicus (I. González, ZPE 55, 1984, p.58 I 7,59 I 21). Her manner and her popularity with the army and the people ensured that she was hated by Tiberius (Tac. Ann. 1,69; 3,4), who finally obtained her banishment to Pandateria (Tac. Ann. 5,3 ff.; Suet. Tib. 53). She died there in AD 33 as a result of abstaining from food (Tac. Ann. 6,25,1); in AD 37, Caligula had her ashes moved to Rome and interred in the Mausoleum Augusti (Suet. Calig. 15,1). |
