The Empty Throne: Augustus’s Successors Vanish

Timeline of Augustus’s successors: Marcellus, Agrippa, Lucius and Gaius die one after another, and in AD 4 Tiberius remains.

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Twenty-three BC.

Marcellus, nephew and son-in-law of Augustus.

He is the first of Augustus’s hopes to die.

Twelve BC: Julia’s husband Agrippa dies.

Tiberius must divorce his pregnant wife and marry the widow.

In AD two, Lucius dies in Massilia.

In AD four, Gaius dies in Lycia.

Eighteen months separate them.

That same year Augustus adopts Tiberius and Agrippa Postumus.

Postumus he soon sends away from Rome.

One stepson remains. And no one else.