Germanicus: l'espérance et la mort.

He was the adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, brother of Emperor Claudius, father of Emperor Caligula, and grandfather of Emperor Nero. A central figure in the Julio-Claudian dynasty, this man, who also had blood from Mark Antony, his maternal grandfather, nevertheless did not rise to the highest office. Thus, we could call him, like our colleagues at the journal L’Histoire, the interrupted prince… What would have happened if Gaius Julius Caesar, known as Germanicus, had not been taken by illness at the age of 34? Would he have replaced all the men of his dynasty whose fate was shared between assassination and suicide? This ideal prince, of whom little is known, seems to have been idolized by his contemporaries. Suetonius wrote of him: "It is known that Germanicus combined, to a degree never attained by anyone, all the advantages of the body and the qualities of the mind, a singular beauty and valor, a profound erudition and a high eloquence in Greek letters and Latin letters, an admirable goodness of soul, the greatest desire to conciliate and deserve the affection of his fellow men, and the most marvelous talent to succeed in it." A general perhaps idealized to the extreme, whom Storiavoce invites you to discover with the historian Yann Rivière. An interview with Christophe Dickès.