Lucius Cassius Longinus
Husband of Julia Drusilla and Consul of 30 CE
About Lucius Cassius Longinus
Lived 50 BC – AD 41 (aged 89–90). Lucius Cassius Longinus was a Roman politician, military personnel and writer.
Lucius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reigns of Tiberius and Caligula. He was ordinary consul in the year AD 30 with Marcus Vinicius as his colleague. Longinus came from an ancient and noble gens, the Cassii. He is best known as the first husband of the Emperor Caligula's sister Julia Drusilla, whom he married in 33.
In early 37, he was appointed by Tiberius as a commissioner. After Caligula became Caesar later that year, he ordered Longinus to divorce Drusilla so that she could marry Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. While Longinus was proconsular governor of Asia (40/41), Caligula ordered his execution based on an oracle which Caligula interpreted as indicating that Cassius would assassinate him.
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husband of Julia Drusilla and Consul of 30 CE
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Lucius Cassius Longinus was born in 50 BC in Rome.
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Lucius Cassius Longinus died in AD 41 in Rome.
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Lucius Cassius Longinus was a politician, military personnel and writer.
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Lucius Cassius Longinus was Roman.
Sources & further reading
· Wikipedia: Lucius Cassius Longinus
· DBpedia: Lucius Cassius Longinus (consul 30)
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