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Son of Drusus and Antonia; older brother of Claudius and Livilla; grandson of Livia; grandnephew of Augustus; nephew of Tiberius; first cousin of Castor; husband of Agrippina the Elder; father of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal grandfather of Nero. One of the few people to treat Claudius with any compassion at all. He is eventually murdered by his son.
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Son of Drusus and Antonia; older brother of Claudius and Livilla; grandson of Livia; grandnephew of Augustus; nephew of Tiberius; first 1st cousin of Castor; husband of Agrippina the Elder; father of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal grandfather of Nero. One of the few people to treat Claudius with any compassion at all. He is eventually murdered by his son.
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Wife of Drusus; mother of Claudius, Germanicus, and Livilla; niece of Augustus; daughter-in-law of Livia; first cousin of Julia; sister-in-law of Tiberius; paternal grandmother of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal great-grandmother of Nero. One of the few "moral" people in Rome, how sane she is is rather questionable.
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Wife of Drusus; mother of Claudius, Germanicus, and Livilla; niece of Augustus; daughter-in-law of Livia; first 1st cousin of Julia; sister-in-law of Tiberius; paternal grandmother of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal great-grandmother of Nero. One of the few "moral" people in Rome, how sane she is is rather questionable.
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Wife of Drusus; mother of Claudius, Germanicus, and Livilla; niece of Augustus; daughter-in-law of Livia; first cousin of Julia (the Elder); sister-in-law of Tiberius; paternal grandmother of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal great-grandmother of Nero. One of the few "moral" people in Rome, how sane she is is rather questionable.
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Wife of Drusus; mother of Claudius, Germanicus, and Livilla; niece of Augustus; daughter-in-law of Livia; first cousin of Julia (the Elder); Julia; sister-in-law of Tiberius; paternal grandmother of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal great-grandmother of Nero. One of the few "moral" people in Rome, how sane she is is rather questionable.
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Daughter of Drusus and Antonia; sister of Claudius and Germanicus; grandniece of Augustus; granddaughter of Livia; wife of Castor; niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius; paternal aunt of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal grand-aunt of Nero. She treats Claudius with nothing but contempt. Becomes romantically involved, to the point of obsession, with Sejanus.
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Daughter of Drusus and Antonia; sister of Claudius and Germanicus; grandniece of Augustus; granddaughter of Livia; wife of Castor; mother of Helen and Gemellus; niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius; paternal aunt of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal grand-aunt of Nero. She treats Claudius with nothing but contempt. Becomes romantically involved, to the point of obsession, with Sejanus.
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Daughter of Drusus and Antonia (Minor); sister of Claudius and Germanicus; grandniece of Augustus; granddaughter of Livia; wife of Castor; niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius; paternal aunt of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal grand-aunt of Nero. She treats Claudius with nothing but contempt. Becomes romantically involved, to the point of obsession, with Sejanus.
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Daughter of Drusus and Antonia (Minor); Antonia; sister of Claudius and Germanicus; grandniece of Augustus; granddaughter of Livia; wife of Castor; niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius; paternal aunt of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal grand-aunt of Nero. She treats Claudius with nothing but contempt. Becomes romantically involved, to the point of obsession, with Sejanus.
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Son of Drusus and Antonia (Minor); Antonia; older brother of Claudius and Livilla; grandson of Livia; grandnephew of Augustus; grandson of Livia, nephew of Tiberius; first cousin of Castor; husband of Agrippina the Elder; father of Caligula, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger; and maternal grandfather of Nero. One of the few people to treat Claudius with any compassion at all. He is eventually murdered by his son.
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-->'''Drusus''': And you could cut your throat shaving or choke on a plum stone... Tiberius, none of us is guaranteed a time.
-->'''Tiberius''': No... You're my lifeline into the light.
-->'''Drusus''': Ahh, what could happen to me, hmmm?
-->'''Tiberius''': Well, you could be killed in battle. Or you could fall sick and die.
-->'''Drusus''': And you could cut your throat shaving or choke on a plum stone... Tiberius, none of us is guaranteed a time.
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!!Antonia
[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/antonia_margarettyzack.jpg]]
->Played by Margaret Tyzack.
Claudius's mother, and one of the few "moral" people in Rome. Though how sane she is is rather questionable.
* AbusiveParent: Even in his own hallucinations Claudius isn't free from her constant degradation.
-->''(during Claudius' hallucination in the Senate)'' "And your nose is still running, Claudius. It's still running."
* DeathByDespair: Discussed. Before she commits suicide, Antonia confesses to Claudius that of all the tragedies in her life, her killing her villainous daughter, Livilla, was the worst of them all; lamenting that she should have died then.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Her constant moralizing may seem haughty, but by Roman standards, she really ''is'' morally quite upright: she's a devoted wife, pious, thrifty, firm but benevolent to her slaves[[labelnote:Note]]before she dies, she makes Claudius swear to treat them well in return for their faithful service to her[[/labelnote]], and she tries to instill proper Roman values in her children.
* DrivenToSuicide: It's okay, though. For Romans, this is an honorable choice, and she's rather matter-of-fact about it when she tells Claudius what she's going to do. Everyone she loved most is dead, she unwittingly raised and then deliberately killed a traitorous daughter, and thanks to Tiberius and Caligula there is no more pride in being a Roman--so she's leaving.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's an unpleasant person but even she was quite disgusted with Sejanus' ex-wife Apicata's bemoaning over Sejanus not allowing her to see her children, stating she knew what type of monster Sejanus was when Apicata married him and is only complaining that Sejanus was treating her the same way she was content to see Sejanus treat everyone else.
* HappilyMarried: Though they're not onscreen for very long it's clear she and Drusus had a very loving relationship. Antonia even follows him to his deployment in Germany.
* HolierThanThou: She's an exemplary model of Roman piety -- and she makes sure everyone knows it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: When things start going seriously down the drain she starts criticizing everyone around her for not having the courage to kill Caligula. At no point does she even contemplate the notion that she might give it a try.
* FamousAncestor: She's the daughter of Mark Antony and takes great pride in it; in direct defiance of the fact that a) she never knew him and b) Augustus ''also'' takes great pride in having soundly defeated him.
* KickTheDog: Treats Claudius like dirt throughout the series. Even when she reveals her plan to commit suicide to him, she makes sure to remind him how much of a disappointment he remains to her despite his disabilities not being his fault.
* MyGreatestFailure: Comes to see the way Livilla turned out as this.
* NiceToTheWaiter: One of her last requests to Claudius is to take care of her slaves for her, as they had been very loyal.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Locks Livilla in her bedroom to starve to death after learning of her role in Sejanus' plot.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlives her son Germanicus and daughter Livilla, the latter of which died at her hand. She also outlives her grandsons Nero, Drusus, and Gemellus.
* ParentalFavouritism: Germanicus is obviously her favorite. She doesn't even seem to like Livilla all that much, even before Livilla becomes her grandmother's pet.
* PetTheDog:
** When Livilla is scornful about the prophecy that Claudius will become Rome's protector, and cruelly says she hopes she'll be dead before then, Antonia angrily sends her to bed without supper.
** She's dismissive of Apicata's pleas for her children as Apicata was fine with Sejanus's atrocities so long as she wasn't directly affected. Yet she does still speak on Apicata's behalf to Livilla; Apicata's love of her children resonating with her on some level.
* RightlySelfRighteous: Antonia holds her moral compass above everyone else's head and constantly rants about the failings of society and other people not living up to her standards. Antonia's piety also plays into it and she often comes across as HolierThanThou. That said, Antonia's morals compass is more often than not fairly accurate and she does her part to try and fight against the more evil characters in the series.
* SoapboxSadie: Is constantly bemoaning how Rome is going down the toilet.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Ultimately takes this view of herself. [[spoiler:She commits suicide to protest Caligula's debauched reign.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: In her earlier appearances and during her scenes with Julia, Antonia comes off as a fairly friendly person. However, Drusus's death destroyed almost all the good in her and reduced her to a hateful wreck.
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!!Livilla
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/livilla.jpg]]
->Played by Creator/PatriciaQuinn.
Claudius's sister, who treats him with nothing but contempt. Becomes romantically involved, to the point of obsession, with Sejanus.
* BlackWidow: [[spoiler:She poisons her husband Castor so that she can be closer to Sejanus.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: She is willing to murder her own family if it meant getting closer to Sejanus.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She gets locked in her room by her mother Antonia and starves to death.]]
* HateSink: A gratingly smug woman who takes pleasure in emotional cruelty and is without any moments of genuine kindness or decency. She eventually evolves into an outright monster, and attempts to murder her own family members before being killed herself. No one is shown to even slightly miss her after her death.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:She tries to kill her daughter, but instead is killed by her own mother.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: The lengths she will go to in order to marry Sejanus are truly staggering.
* KickTheDog: While Livilla has committed her share of misdeeds, there was usually a reason, if an unsympathetic one. She set up Postumus because Livia blackmailed her and she killed Castor to be with Sejanus. However her attemptpoisoning of Helen, her daughter, was largely done out of spite that she was to be paired off with Sejanus. There was no real benefit to the act beyond showing how petty and obsessed she had become. She makes sure that the last thing Castor sees as he dies is her and Sejanus embracing in front of him, wordlessly conveying their joy in his demise. Even if they needed to kill him in order to marry, that was a low blow.
* KissingCousins: She is married to her cousin Castor, who is also Tiberius' son.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: She was never a sympathetic character, but she becomes completely depraved after falling in love with Sejanus.
* MeaningfulName: Livilla means "Little Livia." She imagines herself to be another master of court intrigue like her grandmother. However, she lacks her grandmother’s intelligence, discipline, or discretion, and her shortcomings as a schemer prove fatal.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Her motive for trying to kill [[spoiler:Helen]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her careless disposal of her letter drafts to Sejanus allows them to be recovered by her mother Antonia. The recovery of this evidence causes Sejanus' downfall.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:She tries to poison her daughter Helen when Tiberius arranges for Helen to marry Sejanus. Livilla suffers this fate herself when Antonia discovers her plans.]]
* ParentalNeglect: She is a rotten mother to her children, [[spoiler:even when she isn’t trying to poison them.]]
* PowerDynamicsKink: With Sejanus. He tells her to play ball and not give them both away, and threatens to lock her in a room with no clothes so that he or his guards will ravish her on a daily basis. Livilla is especially turned on by this "threat".
* SmugSnake: She’s hubristic, rude, selfish, manipulative, jealous, and amoral, but is ultimately too impulsive and sloppy to outwit anyone but the most naive characters.
* VillainousBreakdown: She suffers these repeatedly when she can’t have Sejanus to herself and becomes a sobbing wreck when Antonia finally punishes her for her crimes.
* {{Yandere}}: After falling in love with Sejanus, she will do absolutely anything to marry him. Including murdering her own husband and daughter.
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!!Germanicus Julius Caesar
[[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/germanicus.jpg]]
->Played by David Robb.
Claudius's brother, and one of the few people to treat him with any compassion at all. He is eventually murdered by his son.
* AFatherToHisMen: Like his father and grandfather, he shares in the hardships of the soldiers under his command.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A rare male example of this trope; blond-haired and admired by all as a virtuous hero of the German front. His children are all inversions (either good but dark-haired or blonde but evil).
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The only people who don't like him are almost inevitably complete douchebags who want him dead out of spite.
* NiceGuy: One of the only examples in the series. Germanicus is a friendly and upstanding man liked by just about everyone who meets him. This is part of the reason why [[GreenEyedMonster Tiberius resents him so much.]]
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
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!!Nero Claudius Drusus
->Played by Ian Ogilvy
Tiberius's younger brother and Claudius's father. A high ranking soldier in the army and one of the more moral characters in the series.
* CynicismCatalyst: Tiberius's divorce from Vipsania weighed heavily on him and it was Drusus's presence that gave him hope as his life sagged around him. Drusus's death was ultimately what sent Tiberius over the edge.
* CynicIdealistDuo: Idealist to his brother's Cynic.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Well, more like "Mad Alchemist's Handsome Son". He is fully aware his mother is a less than kindly figure, but just tries to carry-on his duties to the empire.
* MoralityPet: His friendship with his brother, Tiberius, is one of the main things keeping Tiberius's darker inclinations in check. When he dies, Tiberius goes over the edge.
* OnlyFriend: To Tiberius.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Happy, charismatic, moral, and doomed.
* WideEyedIdealist: His desire to see Rome return to a republic was probably not so good for his health, considering who his mother was.
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!!Julia
->Played by: Frances White
Augustus's daughter. Though he loves her he often ends up using her as a political tool, first to marry Agrippa and then Tiberius. Julia's unhappy marriages and constant manipulations ignite a rebellious streak.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: While she loved Marcellus, she resented her marriage to Agrippa, which was political and done without her consent. As for Tiberius, she was originally attracted to him to the point she thought she was in love with him, but once they were actually married, the reality of him was [[LovingAShadow far different]], made even worse by the fact he never stopped loving Vipsania and hated being forced to marry Julia.
* BigEater: Julia loves to eat and is often seen indulging in it. She complains that her physician advised against it for health reasons.
* CassandraTruth: While other members of the family know Livia can be ruthless, Julia is one of the first to realise just ''how'' ruthless she is and what she's capable of; she suspects her stepmother of killing Marcellus and later Drusus [[spoiler:and was only wrong about the latter because Livia hadn't gotten around to it before his accident]] and tries to convince Antonia, to no avail. Alas, her savviness doesn't save her.
* TheHedonist: With an unhappy marriage to Tiberius and a lot of pent-up resentment, Julia indulges in alcohol, food, and sex.
* MrViceGuy: Julia sleeps around a lot, but is one of the nicer characters in the first quarter of the series. At times she was a better parent to her nephew, Claudius, than Antonia.
* LovedByAll: Another very popular member of the royal family. When exiled, Augustus complains that the citizens continue to demand her return and call him wicked for his treatment of her.
* OddFriendship: She and Antonia are complete opposites; Julia is a free spirit and hedonist while Antonia is a strictly pious woman. They still get along well as in-laws, both confiding in each other quite a bit.
* PetTheDog: Julia is one of the few characters who is nice to Claudius, and is surprised when Antonia admits to finding him difficult to care about.
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!! Marcus Claudius Marcellus
->Played by: Christopher Guard
Augustus's nephew and son-in-law and the one originally groomed to be his successor. He thinks little of Agrippa and his accomplishments.
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* KissingCousins: As is custom for the ruling class. Marcellus is the son of Augustus's sister and his wife is the daughter of Augustus.
* LovedByAll: Like Agrippa, he commanded a considerable amount of popularity amongst the people. It's a major factor in Livia's decision to kill him as she was wary of the power it could give him.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's only a player at the beginning of the story but his death kicks off the fight for succession that dominates much of the plot.
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!!Castor (Drusus Julius Caesar)
->Played by: Creator/KevinMcNally
Tiberius' only son and the husband of Livilla.
* KissingCousins: He is married to his first cousin Livilla.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Compared to his depraved father, he is much more upstanding and noble.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is Drusus, but he is mainly referred to as Castor. When Sejanus addresses him as this, he says that only his friends call him Castor.
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!! Agrippina the Elder
->Played by: Fiona Walker
Daughter of Agrippa and Julia, wife of Germanicus, and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger.
* ArchEnemy: She and Tiberius eventually settle into a mutual hatred for each other.
* ParentalObliviousness: She seems unaware of Caligula's mad tendencies in his youth.
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!!Antonia
[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/antonia_margarettyzack.jpg]]
->Played by Margaret Tyzack.
Claudius's mother, and one of the few "moral" people in Rome. Though how sane she is is rather questionable.
* AbusiveParent: Even in his own hallucinations Claudius isn't free from her constant degradation.
-->''(during Claudius' hallucination in the Senate)'' "And your nose is still running, Claudius. It's still running."
* DeathByDespair: Discussed. Before she commits suicide, Antonia confesses to Claudius that of all the tragedies in her life, her killing her villainous daughter, Livilla, was the worst of them all; lamenting that she should have died then.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Her constant moralizing may seem haughty, but by Roman standards, she really ''is'' morally quite upright: she's a devoted wife, pious, thrifty, firm but benevolent to her slaves[[labelnote:Note]]before she dies, she makes Claudius swear to treat them well in return for their faithful service to her[[/labelnote]], and she tries to instill proper Roman values in her children.
* DrivenToSuicide: It's okay, though. For Romans, this is an honorable choice, and she's rather matter-of-fact about it when she tells Claudius what she's going to do. Everyone she loved most is dead, she unwittingly raised and then deliberately killed a traitorous daughter, and thanks to Tiberius and Caligula there is no more pride in being a Roman--so she's leaving.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's an unpleasant person but even she was quite disgusted with Sejanus' ex-wife Apicata's bemoaning over Sejanus not allowing her to see her children, stating she knew what type of monster Sejanus was when Apicata married him and is only complaining that Sejanus was treating her the same way she was content to see Sejanus treat everyone else.
* HappilyMarried: Though they're not onscreen for very long it's clear she and Drusus had a very loving relationship. Antonia even follows him to his deployment in Germany.
* HolierThanThou: She's an exemplary model of Roman piety -- and she makes sure everyone knows it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: When things start going seriously down the drain she starts criticizing everyone around her for not having the courage to kill Caligula. At no point does she even contemplate the notion that she might give it a try.
* FamousAncestor: She's the daughter of Mark Antony and takes great pride in it; in direct defiance of the fact that a) she never knew him and b) Augustus ''also'' takes great pride in having soundly defeated him.
* KickTheDog: Treats Claudius like dirt throughout the series. Even when she reveals her plan to commit suicide to him, she makes sure to remind him how much of a disappointment he remains to her despite his disabilities not being his fault.
* MyGreatestFailure: Comes to see the way Livilla turned out as this.
* NiceToTheWaiter: One of her last requests to Claudius is to take care of her slaves for her, as they had been very loyal.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Locks Livilla in her bedroom to starve to death after learning of her role in Sejanus' plot.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlives her son Germanicus and daughter Livilla, the latter of which died at her hand. She also outlives her grandsons Nero, Drusus, and Gemellus.
* ParentalFavouritism: Germanicus is obviously her favorite. She doesn't even seem to like Livilla all that much, even before Livilla becomes her grandmother's pet.
* PetTheDog:
** When Livilla is scornful about the prophecy that Claudius will become Rome's protector, and cruelly says she hopes she'll be dead before then, Antonia angrily sends her to bed without supper.
** She's dismissive of Apicata's pleas for her children as Apicata was fine with Sejanus's atrocities so long as she wasn't directly affected. Yet she does still speak on Apicata's behalf to Livilla; Apicata's love of her children resonating with her on some level.
* RightlySelfRighteous: Antonia holds her moral compass above everyone else's head and constantly rants about the failings of society and other people not living up to her standards. Antonia's piety also plays into it and she often comes across as HolierThanThou. That said, Antonia's morals compass is more often than not fairly accurate and she does her part to try and fight against the more evil characters in the series.
* SoapboxSadie: Is constantly bemoaning how Rome is going down the toilet.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Ultimately takes this view of herself. [[spoiler:She commits suicide to protest Caligula's debauched reign.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: In her earlier appearances and during her scenes with Julia, Antonia comes off as a fairly friendly person. However, Drusus's death destroyed almost all the good in her and reduced her to a hateful wreck.
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[[folder:Livilla]]
!!Livilla
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->Played by Creator/PatriciaQuinn.
Claudius's sister, who treats him with nothing but contempt. Becomes romantically involved, to the point of obsession, with Sejanus.
* BlackWidow: [[spoiler:She poisons her husband Castor so that she can be closer to Sejanus.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: She is willing to murder her own family if it meant getting closer to Sejanus.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She gets locked in her room by her mother Antonia and starves to death.]]
* HateSink: A gratingly smug woman who takes pleasure in emotional cruelty and is without any moments of genuine kindness or decency. She eventually evolves into an outright monster, and attempts to murder her own family members before being killed herself. No one is shown to even slightly miss her after her death.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:She tries to kill her daughter, but instead is killed by her own mother.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: The lengths she will go to in order to marry Sejanus are truly staggering.
* KickTheDog: While Livilla has committed her share of misdeeds, there was usually a reason, if an unsympathetic one. She set up Postumus because Livia blackmailed her and she killed Castor to be with Sejanus. However her attemptpoisoning of Helen, her daughter, was largely done out of spite that she was to be paired off with Sejanus. There was no real benefit to the act beyond showing how petty and obsessed she had become. She makes sure that the last thing Castor sees as he dies is her and Sejanus embracing in front of him, wordlessly conveying their joy in his demise. Even if they needed to kill him in order to marry, that was a low blow.
* KissingCousins: She is married to her cousin Castor, who is also Tiberius' son.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: She was never a sympathetic character, but she becomes completely depraved after falling in love with Sejanus.
* MeaningfulName: Livilla means "Little Livia." She imagines herself to be another master of court intrigue like her grandmother. However, she lacks her grandmother’s intelligence, discipline, or discretion, and her shortcomings as a schemer prove fatal.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Her motive for trying to kill [[spoiler:Helen]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her careless disposal of her letter drafts to Sejanus allows them to be recovered by her mother Antonia. The recovery of this evidence causes Sejanus' downfall.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:She tries to poison her daughter Helen when Tiberius arranges for Helen to marry Sejanus. Livilla suffers this fate herself when Antonia discovers her plans.]]
* ParentalNeglect: She is a rotten mother to her children, [[spoiler:even when she isn’t trying to poison them.]]
* PowerDynamicsKink: With Sejanus. He tells her to play ball and not give them both away, and threatens to lock her in a room with no clothes so that he or his guards will ravish her on a daily basis. Livilla is especially turned on by this "threat".
* SmugSnake: She’s hubristic, rude, selfish, manipulative, jealous, and amoral, but is ultimately too impulsive and sloppy to outwit anyone but the most naive characters.
* VillainousBreakdown: She suffers these repeatedly when she can’t have Sejanus to herself and becomes a sobbing wreck when Antonia finally punishes her for her crimes.
* {{Yandere}}: After falling in love with Sejanus, she will do absolutely anything to marry him. Including murdering her own husband and daughter.
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[[folder:Germanicus]]
!!Germanicus Julius Caesar
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->Played by David Robb.
Claudius's brother, and one of the few people to treat him with any compassion at all. He is eventually murdered by his son.
* AFatherToHisMen: Like his father and grandfather, he shares in the hardships of the soldiers under his command.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A rare male example of this trope; blond-haired and admired by all as a virtuous hero of the German front. His children are all inversions (either good but dark-haired or blonde but evil).
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The only people who don't like him are almost inevitably complete douchebags who want him dead out of spite.
* NiceGuy: One of the only examples in the series. Germanicus is a friendly and upstanding man liked by just about everyone who meets him. This is part of the reason why [[GreenEyedMonster Tiberius resents him so much.]]
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
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[[folder:Drusus]]
!!Nero Claudius Drusus
->Played by Ian Ogilvy
Tiberius's younger brother and Claudius's father. A high ranking soldier in the army and one of the more moral characters in the series.
* CynicismCatalyst: Tiberius's divorce from Vipsania weighed heavily on him and it was Drusus's presence that gave him hope as his life sagged around him. Drusus's death was ultimately what sent Tiberius over the edge.
* CynicIdealistDuo: Idealist to his brother's Cynic.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Well, more like "Mad Alchemist's Handsome Son". He is fully aware his mother is a less than kindly figure, but just tries to carry-on his duties to the empire.
* MoralityPet: His friendship with his brother, Tiberius, is one of the main things keeping Tiberius's darker inclinations in check. When he dies, Tiberius goes over the edge.
* OnlyFriend: To Tiberius.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Happy, charismatic, moral, and doomed.
* WideEyedIdealist: His desire to see Rome return to a republic was probably not so good for his health, considering who his mother was.
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[[folder:Julia]]
!!Julia
->Played by: Frances White
Augustus's daughter. Though he loves her he often ends up using her as a political tool, first to marry Agrippa and then Tiberius. Julia's unhappy marriages and constant manipulations ignite a rebellious streak.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: While she loved Marcellus, she resented her marriage to Agrippa, which was political and done without her consent. As for Tiberius, she was originally attracted to him to the point she thought she was in love with him, but once they were actually married, the reality of him was [[LovingAShadow far different]], made even worse by the fact he never stopped loving Vipsania and hated being forced to marry Julia.
* BigEater: Julia loves to eat and is often seen indulging in it. She complains that her physician advised against it for health reasons.
* CassandraTruth: While other members of the family know Livia can be ruthless, Julia is one of the first to realise just ''how'' ruthless she is and what she's capable of; she suspects her stepmother of killing Marcellus and later Drusus [[spoiler:and was only wrong about the latter because Livia hadn't gotten around to it before his accident]] and tries to convince Antonia, to no avail. Alas, her savviness doesn't save her.
* TheHedonist: With an unhappy marriage to Tiberius and a lot of pent-up resentment, Julia indulges in alcohol, food, and sex.
* MrViceGuy: Julia sleeps around a lot, but is one of the nicer characters in the first quarter of the series. At times she was a better parent to her nephew, Claudius, than Antonia.
* LovedByAll: Another very popular member of the royal family. When exiled, Augustus complains that the citizens continue to demand her return and call him wicked for his treatment of her.
* OddFriendship: She and Antonia are complete opposites; Julia is a free spirit and hedonist while Antonia is a strictly pious woman. They still get along well as in-laws, both confiding in each other quite a bit.
* PetTheDog: Julia is one of the few characters who is nice to Claudius, and is surprised when Antonia admits to finding him difficult to care about.
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[[folder:Marcellus]]
!! Marcus Claudius Marcellus
->Played by: Christopher Guard
Augustus's nephew and son-in-law and the one originally groomed to be his successor. He thinks little of Agrippa and his accomplishments.
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* KissingCousins: As is custom for the ruling class. Marcellus is the son of Augustus's sister and his wife is the daughter of Augustus.
* LovedByAll: Like Agrippa, he commanded a considerable amount of popularity amongst the people. It's a major factor in Livia's decision to kill him as she was wary of the power it could give him.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's only a player at the beginning of the story but his death kicks off the fight for succession that dominates much of the plot.
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[[folder:Castor]]
!!Castor (Drusus Julius Caesar)
->Played by: Creator/KevinMcNally
Tiberius' only son and the husband of Livilla.
* KissingCousins: He is married to his first cousin Livilla.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Compared to his depraved father, he is much more upstanding and noble.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is Drusus, but he is mainly referred to as Castor. When Sejanus addresses him as this, he says that only his friends call him Castor.
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[[folder:Agrippina the Elder]]
!! Agrippina the Elder
->Played by: Fiona Walker
Daughter of Agrippa and Julia, wife of Germanicus, and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger.
* ArchEnemy: She and Tiberius eventually settle into a mutual hatred for each other.
* ParentalObliviousness: She seems unaware of Caligula's mad tendencies in his youth.
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