You know how things go for a kid with my background, from their mid-teens on. Little bit of political engineering on the bitch’s part nearly had me in an urn
No coincidence there, either, far from it.īelieve me, I know as things turned out, sussing out the details of that Tiberius, aka the Wart, son of his wife Livia by an earlier marriage (are youįollowing all this? Questions later). Succession – and political power – was concerned the only game in town was Out not long afterwards, and by the time Augustus died (was promoted) where the
They are it had been a pretty shrewd move originally on Dad’s part, politically Successor, so contracted marriages at our end of the social scale being what As you might guess from her name, Mother was theĭaughter of Vipsanius Agrippa, the old guy’s erstwhile deputy and hoped-for No coincidence there, mind,Īnd not the only reason. More about Grampa Marcus later.Īnd Dad were different as chalk and cheese, which was one reason why theyĭivorced around the time of my fourteenth birthday, just after the old EmperorĪugustus popped his clogs. Paternal grandfather another Marcus Valerius Corvinus. When it comes to names), mother Vipsania (just the one name this time.
Valerius Messalla Messalinus (yeah, all four of them we Roman aristos don’t skimp Romulus ploughed his first furrow eight hundred years back. Was born in Rome, where the family’s been a fixture practically ever since Tell us a little about your family and early life. Dear readers, tonight with me is a Roman nobleman, scion to the patrician Valerii Messallae family. Living in the times of the emperor Tiberius, he was privy to some of the most interesting events of the early Caesars, from a unique behind-the-scenes view. He’s here to tell us about his life and his times.
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