Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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Before Augustus consolidated power around himself, before Augustus created this idea that what we call the emperor and what they called the principate was something that could be inherited everywhere.
They were creating that.
Her parents were part of the generation that created that.
And so she is the first person who never knows a Republic.
She is of the first generation that just has no idea that there is anything other than her family is very special.
Augustus, her grandfather, is made divine at the...
same time that she is born, basically.
Her whole life, she is part of a family that is worshipped as being more special than everybody else, as being royal, as being blessed by the gods in a way that others aren't.
And then her father is the great emperor that never was.
Yes, the very great what-if.
He dies when she's kind of five or six years old.
And her mother, Agrippina, believes very strongly that he was murdered by Tiberius, who was the emperor at the time.
out of jealousy and raises her children to believe that Tiberius has killed their family, basically, and that Tiberius hates them.
Tiberius wants them all dead and that Tiberius has stolen their throne.
It should be their throne of their family.
She is very angry.
For her whole life, I think the one thread that runs through is this sense that...
her family and her descendants deserve the throne more than anybody else.
And that everybody else is basically either an obstacle to be overcome or an enemy.
And that she has a single-mindedness from quite a young age that her family will rule Rome and nobody else will be allowed to have that chance.
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