GERMANICUS ON TOUR: HISTORY, DIPLOMACY AND THE PROMOTION OF A DYNASTY
Towards the end of Book 2 of Tacitus' Annals, Germanicus, great nephew of Augustus, grandson of Mark Antony, and nephew, adopted son and heir of the emperor Tiberius, falls ill and dies at Antioch (2.69 72) His travels in the eastern Mediterranean in a.d. 18 thus reach a sad conclusion. They had begun when, after being recalled from the wars of conquest in Germany described in detail in the opening books of the Annals (1.50 1, 1.55 71; 2.5.2 26) he was sent from Rome by Tiberius to preside over the installation of a new king of Armenia (2.43.1; cf. 2.3 5.1)
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