Gaius Asinius Gallus was an ambitious Roman senator with family connections to the Julio-Claudian house. The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. ... The Julio-Claudian dynasty was the series of the first five Roman Emperors. ...

He was son to Gaius Asinius Pollio. In 11 BC he married Vipsania, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and ex-wife of Tiberius. He was consul in 8 BC, and proconsul of Asia in 6/5 BC. Gaius Asinius Pollio ( 76/75 BC-AD 5) was a Roman orator, poet and historian. ... Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Agrippa and first wife of Tiberius Vipsania Agrippina (36 BC-20 AD) was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his first wife Pomponia Caecilia Attica, granddaughter of Ciceros friend and knight Titus Pomponius Atticus. ... Marcus Agrippa Agrippa redirects here. ... Tiberius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16, 42 BC – March 16 AD 37), was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37. ...

Asinius Gallus never denied his paternity of the son of Tiberius and Vipsania, Drusus minor, heir from 19 AD to 23 AD; and he courted the widow of Germanicus, Agrippina Senior. This and his sharp wit earned Tiberius' enmity. In 30 AD, at Tiberius' instigation, the Senate declared Gallus a public enemy, and he was held in conditions of solitary confinement (Dio Cassius 58.3): "He had no companion or servant with him, spoke to no one, and saw no one, except when he was compelled to take food. And the food was of such quality and amount as neither to afford him any satisfaction or strength nor yet to allow him to die." He died in prison in 33, of starvation (Tacitus, Annals 6.23). When Agrippina died in October of that same year, Tiberius accused her of "having had Asinius Gallus as a paramour and being driven by his death to loathe existence" (Annals 6.25). His name was erased from public monuments (a practice known as "damnatio memoriae"), though they were restored after Tiberius' death. Drusus the Younger, son of Tiberius. ... For other uses, see number 19. ... Events Rome Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus - it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world. ... Bust of Germanicus in the Louvre Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus, possibly Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus before adoption (15 BC–AD October 10, 19) was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. ... Agrippina the Elder Julia Vipsania Agrippina (circa 14 BC– AD 33), known as Agrippina Major (Agrippina the Elder), was one of the most powerful women in the Roman Empire in the early 1st century AD. She was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa by his third wife Julia Caesaris, was...