Tiberius Claudius Nero

Tiberius Claudius Nero is the name of several ancient Roman men of the gens Claudia.

Roman Republic

• Tiberius Claudius Nero, the first man by the name, a son of Appius Claudius Caecus
• Tiberius Claudius Nero, who was consul in 202 BC, was the grandson of the first Nero
• There have been a number of other times in Roman history when the name has shown up, some of these people may be the same as each other
  • Tiberius Claudius Nero, praetor assigned to the province of Sicilia (Sicily and Malta) in 181 BC.[1] This man may be the same as the consul of 202 BC, or the ones below.
  • Tiberius Claudius Nero, probably praetor peregrinus, then assigned to Liguria in 178 BC; sent from Rome to assemble an army and succeed the consul M. Iunius Brutus at Pisa.[2]
  • Tiberius Claudius Nero, praetor for Sicilia in 167 BC.[3]
• Tiberius Claudius Nero, grandfather of the emperor Tiberius
• Tiberius Claudius Nero, father of emperor Tiberius, first husband to empress Livia and lieutenant of Julius Caesar

Roman Empire

• Tiberius (Tiberius Claudius Nero, later Tiberius Julius Caesar, then Tiberius Caesar Augustus), Roman emperor, eldest son of empress Livia
• Germanicus (Tiberius Claudius Nero or Nero Claudius Drusus, later Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus or Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, later Germanicus Julius Caesar), Roman general and son of Nero Claudius Drusus, father of Caligula
• Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Drusus, then Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus, later Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), Roman emperor, nephew of Tiberius and grandson of Tiberius Nero and Livia
• Nero (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, later Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, then Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), Roman emperor, incorrectly but commonly referred to as Tiberius Claudius Nero

References

1. Livy 40.18.2–3, 5.
2. Livy 41.4.6, 8; T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, pp. 395, 397 (notes 2 and 3).
3. Livy 45.16.3.