Talk:Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (executed by Caligula)

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The first sentence here: "Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, or Marcus Aemilius L.f. Lepidus (6-39, executed by Caligula), was the son of Julia the Younger (a granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus) by her husband Lucius Aemilius Paullus consul 1, of a distinguished and ancient patrician family." is incorrect. This particular Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was the son of a father with the exact same name. I cannot find his mother's name but she is probably not part of the Julio-Claudian family. The family tree in this link illustrates this. The family tree in Barrett's Caligula: Corruption of Power also agrees with the one in the link. Spacekraken (talk) 00:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I re-wrote the article because the original appeared to be based on a mistaken identification of Lepidus' father. I removed the portions regarding him being a cousin of Drusilla since as far as I can tell, Augustus was his great-grand uncle so Drusilla was not his first or second cousin but his third cousin, if that's even correct. There could be an adoption I'm overlooking; this tree is so intertwined. I removed excess information that can be found in the respective biographies to which this article links such as Drusilla's cause of death. I also added more detail on his life. Spacekraken (talk) 05:19, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No, this is still a mess. Historians are very much uncertain who his father really was. See, e.g., Anthony Barrett's biography of 'Caligula: the Corruption of Power' (Touchstone, 1989). This Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Caligula's alleged lover and victim per Suetonius, may have been the son of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the consul of 6 A.D., just as easily as he could have been the son of Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the consul of 1 who had married the granddaughter of Augustus Caesar. If the latter, he was first cousin to his later wife, Drusilla -- if the former, then he was not. But it is also a known possibility that he was son to Manius Aemilius Lepidus, the grandson of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Thus, it is by no means clear that he was "the son of Julia" Minor, as alleged. Many of the related articles, e.g., Marcus Junius Silanus versus Appius Junius Silanus are also contradictory of one another.72.199.110.160 (talk) 18:56, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Indeed, still a mess, and confusion over names has resulted in a verifiably inaccurate statement - that the Aemilia Lepida who was the great-granddaughter of Augustus is the same as that who married Drusus Caesar. They are different people, and as her entry shows, the great-granddaughter of Augustus married Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus. This Marcus Aemilius Lepidus could be the son of Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the consul of 1 CE, or he could be the brother of the wife of Drusus, but, unless the two Aemilia Lepidas are sisters (possible, but I know of no evidence to support that), he can't be both. My own inclination is towards the latter, but the sources are very unclear (as noted, he may not be either), so I have thought it best to delete all references to his sister, and insert a few 'possibly's. Tony Keen2 (talk) 18:13, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

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