Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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And one of the things about Claudius is that he is a notorious glutton.
Like once he starts eating, he won't stop.
Yeah, he's well into his 50s.
Yeah.
So at the very least, I think people pretty strongly believed that she did.
Yeah, basically he hits puberty and gets his toga of manhood.
And then Claudius starts apparently mooning around the palace talking about how much he loves Britannicus and how he hopes that he's going to be able to give Britannicus lots of good honors.
And maybe we can make Britannicus the, you know, put him in charge of this legion over there or make him the urban praetor or whatever, which is all stuff that Nira has been doing up to now.
And at the very least, it is definitely going to cause factions.
There is no situation where this doesn't cause fighting in the palace?
Yeah, Trajan really did get it right with the picking.
Yes, so he gets very ill.
There's a lot of detailed information about it because the...
palace is leaky as a sieve but basically he eats mushrooms they don't kill him immediately they take some time and so one of the stories is that she recruits the doctor who comes to treat him who puts poison on the end of a feather and puts it down his throat
But either way, he has some feasting.
He reacts badly.
He dies quite uncomfortably overnight.
And Agrippina locks the palace down and gets the Praetorian Guard on board with Nero.
She has donatives and promises of financial reward distributed.
And 19-year-old Nero is hailed as emperor the next morning.
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