The Importance of Keeping Irons in the Fire

Augustus knew that lasting the twenty years before his grandsons would be ready to take over was a dicey prospect at best. So in nineteen B.C., he had Tiberius Mary Vipsonia marry Marcus Agrippa by his first wife, and not long after, Drusus married Antonio - ironically enough, Mark Antony. Both marriages were happy ones, though in the case of Tiberius, it was this very happiness that would open up a rift with Augustus that would be the hallmark of their future relationship with each other. The two brothers ruthlessly prosecuted a war of pacification against the tribes living there.