Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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And we think that Claudius is so amazing and wonderful in every way.
And we're so grateful that Pallas exists.
It is quite impressive how executions drop off a cliff as soon as Agrippino becomes Empress, that he executes something like 30 odd people in the first five years of his reign and almost nobody afterwards because she, I think, is very clear that it's not a very helpful way to deal with things.
And interestingly, even when you have crises in the reign, so there's a whole crisis about centurions who they think are
forming a conspiracy around Britannicus, they are not executed.
She makes sure, and this is presented as kind of very scandalous by Tacitus, but she puts them in different positions.
She basically removes them from the Praetorian Guard and puts them into far away legions where they can't really do any damage, but she doesn't demote them.
She doesn't do anything that will cause them to want to get revenge.
If she executes them, then you've got families of people who hate you.
But if you just shuffle them sideways, then you've kind of neutralized the threat without causing any new ones.
Exactly.
And no one is going to join your rebellion because you're like, oh, she sent me to Britain.
I think that she probably did.
Yeah.
And mostly because we do have contemporaneous ish sources that talk about it.
And only one of them is even vaguely skeptical, but people like Pliny the elder who is around at the time and, uh, possibly Seneca, um, uh,
They all think that she did it.
And Seneca's like one of her best friends for a while anyway.
They are all pretty sure that she probably did kill him.
Everyone is dropping dead.
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