Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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He has to have been on board because they literally have to change the law in order to allow it.
And he has to be involved in ratifying that in starting the processes.
Whether he fancied her, I think is just gross.
Yeah, it's not an issue.
It might well be that he did fancy her.
Grosser things have happened in history.
Exactly.
The story goes that she used sexual attraction in order to persuade him that it was a good idea.
That's all they've got.
Because the other story, the kind of parallel story, is that this is all the work of Agrippina and a freedman called Pallas, who is the finance secretary.
He's in charge of all of the finances of the emperor.
So he's incredibly powerful.
And that the two of them are having an affair and that she used her sexual powers, which are apparently immense, to persuade him to persuade Claudius to change the law and have them married so that they could be the power couple who were really running the emperor.
So the first thing that she does is she is named Augusta almost immediately, which hasn't really happened before.
All of the previous women who have been named Augusta have either been retired or deliberately sidelined.
So you have Livia is the main one.
She's named Augusta when Augustus dies.
Augusta at this time is really a very powerful title that becomes diluted over the Roman period.
But to name a woman Augusta is to basically name them as being outside of the realm of normal womanhood, outside of the realm of normal people.
And she is the first woman who is under the age of 70 really to get that name and then be able to use it.
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