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[[Image:Germanicus.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A bust of Germanicus in the British Museum]]
'''Germanicus''' (15 B.C. to 19 A.D) was a famous Roman of the Imperial family in the early Roman Empire. The son of [[Drusus I|Drusus]] and [[Antonia Minor|Antonia]] he had the bloodline of both Augustus and the Claudian line through Augustus' wife [[Livia]]. Immensely popular among the people of Rome, who followed each of his triumphs in pacifying the Germanic tribes after the disastrous [[Battle of the Teutoburg Forest]] in 9 A.D and re-establishing Roman control to the Rhine River. His great uncle Augustus had [[Tiberius]] adopt him as his son and heir to the Emperorship. According to [[Tacitus]], Germanicus was a Republican at heart.
'''Germanicus''' (15 B.C. to 19 A.D) was a famous Roman of the Imperial family in the early Roman Empire. The son of [[Drusus I|Drusus]] and [[Antonia Minor|Antonia]] he had the bloodline of both Augustus and the Claudian line through Augustus' wife [[Livia]]. Immensely popular among the people of Rome, who followed each of his triumphs in pacifying the Germanic tribes after the disastrous [[Battle of the Teutoburg Forest]] in 9 A.D and re-establishing Roman control to the Rhine River. His great uncle Augustus had [[Tiberius]] adopt him as his son and heir to the Emperorship. According to [[Tacitus]], Germanicus was a Republican at heart.