<P> Nero ( Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ) was a great - great - grandson of Augustus and Livia through his mother , Agrippina the Younger . The younger Agrippina was a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder , as well as Caligula 's sister . Through his mother , Nero was related by blood to the Julian and Claudian branches of the Imperial family . However , he was born into the Domitii Ahenobarbi on his father 's side . Nero became a Claudian in name as a result of Agrippina 's marriage to her uncle , Claudius , who ultimately adopted her son as his own . He succeeded Claudius in AD 54 , becoming the last direct descendant of Augustus to rule the Roman Empire . Within a year of Nero 's suicide in AD 68 , the Julio - Claudian dynasty was succeeded by the Flavian emperors following a brief civil war over the vacant Imperial throne . </P>
<P> Nero ( Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ) was a great - great - grandson of Augustus and Livia through his mother , Agrippina the Younger . The younger Agrippina was a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder , as well as Caligula 's sister . Through his mother , Nero was related by blood to the Julian and Claudian branches of the Imperial family . However , he was born into the Domitii Ahenobarbi on his father 's side . Nero became a Claudian in name as a result of Agrippina 's marriage to her uncle , Claudius , who ultimately adopted her son as his own . He succeeded Claudius in AD 54 , becoming the last direct descendant of Augustus to rule the Roman Empire . Within a year of Nero 's suicide in AD 68 , the Julio - Claudian dynasty was succeeded by the Flavian emperors following a brief civil war over the vacant Imperial throne . </P>
who was the last emperor of the augustinian line
who was the last emperor of the augustinian line
Nero
Nero