Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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But it turns out that he actually thinks that she's quite overbearing and wants to do what he wants.
Yeah, immediately.
The first speech that he gives in the Senate, so like on day two of his reign, he goes to the Senate and gives a speech allegedly written by Seneca where he says, the palace is not going to be involved in politics anymore.
Basically, there's not going to be any more of this kind of family involvement.
This is going to be a proper political situation.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
That's true ingratitude.
And then she keeps trying to act as she always had been acting or as actor she had been acting for the past five years.
And he keeps putting her away.
And so basically she is making noises that maybe she'll put her efforts into Britannicus instead.
Maybe she'll join the Britannicus faction.
And so Nero kills Britannicus and he does it in front of her.
It is clear apparently from her facial expression that she did not know and that she knows that this is a message to her that like it's Nero or nothing.
And also she needs to behave herself.
She needs to get back into this female space that Livia had carved out that would be considered an appropriate female space.
And she really doesn't want to.
And so he just kind of keeps killing people until she has to.
We do have this five-year period where she completely disappears.
The first kind of year and a half-ish of Nero's reign are really defined by him feuding with his mother and him trying to take away powers from her, of him removing her from the palace and making her live in her different house so that she's not near the Senate, of preventing people from seeing her.
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