Rome IV KAL. MART. MMDCCLX A.U.C (spoilers)

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[QUOTE=ivylass]
How can he be both?
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Caligula was the son of Germanicus and Vispania Agrippina. Vispania Aggripina was the daughter of Agrippa and Julia. Julia was Augustus’s daughter. So, Augustus is Caligula’s great-grandfather maternally.

Now, Germanicus (Caligula’s father) was the son of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia. Nero Claudius Drusus was the son of Livia Drusilla by her first husband, and is Augustus’s step-son. So, Augustus is Caligula’s step-great grandfather paternally.

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Got it. I think. Oy.

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[QUOTE=ivylass]
Got it. I think. Oy.
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Try looking up those family trees that were provided for me earlier in the thread.

Hoo boy!

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[QUOTE=Omniscient]
Don’t bother. Our friend alphaboi botched it anyways…The full correct date would be “a.d. V Id. Mart. MMDCCLX A.U.C”.
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Hey, it’s been several lifetimes since I’ve used that calender :stuck_out_tongue: . I keep forgeting that subtractice numerals (IV in lieu of IIII) weren’t used 'till the Middle Ages. And the Romans didn’t use “A.U.C” that much either; they named the year for the 2 Consuls.

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
It’s from Suetonius, but I got the wife wrong. He said that about his first wife, Clodia (who was a stepdaughter of Antony’s), not about Scribonia. My mistake.
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:o I knew I shouldn’t have skimmed that.

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
It’s from Suetonius, but I got the wife wrong. He said that about his first wife, Clodia (who was a stepdaughter of Antony’s), not about Scribonia. My mistake.
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I thought he divorced Clodia because he found her mother annoying.