Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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Yeah, absolutely.
She's very efficient.
No one's dead yet other than the emperor.
And she also recognizes, I think quite cleverly, that the real power here is the army, is the Praetorian Guard, several thousand heavily armed men in Rome, and that the Senate will follow what the Praetorian Guard does.
If she'd learned anything from Claudius's succession, it's that the Senate has no real power here.
They exist to ratify decisions made by other people, really.
He is poisoned very quickly into the rain because he is almost as old.
Now, five years looks like a lot less of a problem when it's 19 and 14, 15, and it's certainly going to become less of a problem when they're 20 and 25.
So he's poisoned very quickly.
He's poisoned allegedly at a feast where, in full view of everybody, apparently the poison is put into...
water that is used to cool down wine so they taste the wine the wine is fine they pour the water in it changes the temperature and that's where the poison is he has a kind of terrible fit and Nero tells everybody oh did you not know he was epileptic he's having an epileptic fit and has him removed and then forces everybody to continue with the feast more Agrippina coming up after this folks
He is, who he also has killed.
Later on, several years later, but basically he does end Claudius's line by killing both of his children.
For Agrippina, this is a real moment of crisis because she thinks that by having her quite young son on the throne...
by having put into place his advisors, who are Seneca and Burrus, that she will be able to maintain her position as the partner in the empire.
He has made it very clear there is a very humiliating moment where she attempts to sit next to him while he is receiving a delegation from Armenia, and he stands up and escorts her out of the room and basically says, you are not going to be this person anymore.
Yeah.
On the one hand, she totally achieves what it is, which is that she gets Augustus' direct biological line back on the throne.
But she very much thinks that he is going to be a devoted son and let her do what she wants.
Yeah.
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