• the figures on the Gonzaga Cameo (pictured) were identified as Alexander the Great and Olympias, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Nero and Agrippina the Younger, and many other famous couples of antiquity?

Facts on topics related to Agrippina the Elder

Augustus

• excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti?
• both Augustus and Eleftherios Venizelos exiled opponents to the Cyclades?
• in the Roman Empire, ten-year celebrations called "decennalia" originated after Augustus refused the lifetime supremacy offered to him?
• the Temple of Divus Augustus was a major temple in imperial Rome dedicated to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and completed by his adoptive grandson Caligula?

Agrippina the Younger

• at the Roman festival of Quinquatria in 59, Emperor Nero invited his mother Agrippina to his villa, as part of his plan to assassinate her?
• the figures on the Gonzaga Cameo (pictured) were identified as Alexander the Great and Olympias, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Nero and Agrippina the Younger, and many other famous couples of antiquity?

Caligula

• the Pons Neronianus ('Bridge of Nero') over the Tiber in Rome may actually have been built by Caligula?
• the Temple of Divus Augustus was a major temple in imperial Rome dedicated to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and completed by his adoptive grandson Caligula?

Claudius

• Halotus was an Ancient Roman royal servant who, despite being a prime suspect in the poisoning of Claudius in 54 AD, was granted royal stewardship by Galba in 68 AD, even when the public was calling for his death?
• the earliest written record of Scotland during the Roman Empire is the submission of the King of Orkney to the Emperor Claudius (pictured) at Colchester in the year 43?
• whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, a Roman physician, was involved in the death of Claudius is debated to this day?

Nero

• Gessius Florus became the Roman procurator of Judea due to his wife's friendship with Emperor Nero's wife Poppaea?
• Joseph Throckmorton was called a "second Nero or Calligula (sic)" for his actions on his steamboat Warrior at the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe?
• at the Roman festival of Quinquatria in 59, Emperor Nero invited his mother Agrippina to his villa, as part of his plan to assassinate her?
• at the age of 21, Roman Emperor Nero (pictured) instituted the games of Juvenalia in recognition of the first shaving of his beard?
• the Pons Neronianus ('Bridge of Nero') over the Tiber in Rome may actually have been built by Caligula?
• the figures on the Gonzaga Cameo (pictured) were identified as Alexander the Great and Olympias, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Nero and Agrippina the Younger, and many other famous couples of antiquity?
• the town of Sant'Oreste, Italy grew up around the site at which Saint Orestes was said to have been buried alive during the reign of Nero?

Germanicus

• the figures on the Gonzaga Cameo (pictured) were identified as Alexander the Great and Olympias, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Nero and Agrippina the Younger, and many other famous couples of antiquity?

Julio-Claudian dynasty

• Caesar Augustus, his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus?