Germanicus Caesar
Sawinski, Pawel / Ziolkowski, Adam
The historical memory of the principate is for obvious reasons dominated by the emperors, with one exception: Germanicus Caesar, who, though not a ruler, appears in the sources as if he had been one. Chosen by Augustus as his ultimate heir, the embodiment of the dynastic principle, yet never the emperor, put at the head of one third of the Roman army to reconquer Germania, but recalled before the task's completion, the last to hold an imperium...