Dr Emma Southon
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450 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Dr Emma Southon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then she is genuinely quite loved.
And people are horrified by the fact that he has done this.
And he is horrified by the fact that he's done this.
He never goes back to that area because he thinks that she haunts it.
He forces everybody to pretend that she had tried to kill him and does a kind of damnatio memoriae and forces them to take down her statues and da-da-da.
But eventually, 10 years later, when he is dead,
overthrown, the person who leads the rebellion against him says that one of the reasons is that he murdered his mother and that matricide is the first thing that made him decide that he could not stand to have this man as emperor and that he had started kind of rebelling at that point.
And it is a stain on his reputation that even if he hadn't done anything else, he probably would have struggled to recover from this one among the Romans.
To kill a parent is such a violation of everything that they hold sacred, both religiously and morally, that it is really profoundly shocking.
And then that he makes everybody celebrate it really offends people as well.
She does have her revenge.
He is eventually killed, which helps.
It does.
It's at that point that his reign really goes off the rails.
Anything that he was doing that wasn't halfway decent had been running the empire.
She was clearly doing a lot of the admin work because the admin work stops really being done.
He focuses almost entirely on his music career, on his new wife, on his... Pivots to his music career.
Yeah, that she would never have let him go on the stage.
And going on the stage is what really destroys his reign.
But he's let loose to do whatever he wants.
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