12 Facts About Agrippa Postumus

Agrippa Postumus was the youngest child of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.

Agrippa Postumus was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the first imperial family of the Roman Empire.

Agrippa Postumus was a maternal uncle of Emperor Caligula, who was the son of Agrippa Postumus' sister Agrippina the Elder, as well as a great-uncle of Nero, the last Julio-Claudian emperor, whose mother, Agrippina the Younger, was Caligula's sister.

Agrippa Postumus was born in Rome in 12 BC, approximately three months after his father, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, died in the summer.

Agrippa Postumus agreed to adopt Tiberius if Tiberius first adopted Germanicus.

Indeed, Agrippa Postumus was not given any special schooling or treatment after his adoption.

The reason, Dio says, that Germanicus was chosen over Agrippa Postumus is because Agrippa Postumus was of an "illiberal nature".

Agrippa Postumus was known for being brutish, insolent, stubborn and potentially violent.

Agrippa Postumus possessed great physical strength and reportedly showed little interest in anything other than fishing.

Clemens was able to impersonate Agrippa Postumus because people did not remember what Agrippa Postumus looked like, but Dio says there was a resemblance between them.

The historian Andrew Pettinger argues that the descriptions of Agrippa Postumus reveal a moral inadequacy, not a mental disorder.

Agrippa Postumus is depicted in many works of art due to his relationship with the leading family of the early Roman Empire.