Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32)

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (11 December (? ca. 2 BC) – January 41 AD) was a close relative of the five Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Domitius was the only son of Antonia Major (niece of the emperor Augustus and daughter of Augustus' sister Octavia Minor who was married to triumvir Mark Antony) and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC). His only siblings were Domitia Lepida the Elder and Domitia Lepida the Younger, mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina (third wife of the Emperor Claudius). He was a great-nephew of the Emperor Augustus, brother-in-law and first cousin once removed of the Emperor Caligula; maternal cousin of the Emperor Claudius and the biological father to the Emperor Nero.

Domitius was born ca. 2 BC based on his consulship in AD 32. Other opinions place his birth ca. 20 BC in order to allow him sufficient age to accompany Gaius Caesar on the Eastern Campaign of AD 2. The discrepancies are not reconcilable. But the fact that his two nephews were born ca. AD 18 supports the late birth argument. Domitius was closely related to several notable figures who would dominate the Roman Empire during the 1st century. Suetonius describes him as ‘despicable and dishonest’. Suetonius says that as a young man, Domitius was serving on the staff of his second cousin Gaius Caesar in the East, but this seems odd because Domitius appears to have been born ca. 2 BC, and Gaius went East in AD 2. Gaius was a son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus. Domitius fortified their friendship by killing his freedman for refusing to drink as much as he was told. The reported reason was that the freedman did not get as drunk as Domitius did. On the Appian Way, Domitius was reported of having deliberately run over a child who was playing with his doll. At the Roman Forum, Domitius reportedly pulled out an eye of an equestrian because the equestrian openly criticized him. Gaius Stern claims that the Eastern expedition is actually that of Germanicus in AD 17-19, in keeping with the late birth date ca. 2 BC.

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