Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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That is...
kind of terrifying in a way.
And when you look at the decisions that she made to get there, to make that reality come true, it's impressive, but it is scary.
Basically, yeah.
Although there are not that many members of the family that I think of the Julia Claudium family who are as ambitious as she is.
All of the men around her.
So she's the sister of the Emperor Caligula who becomes emperor because he is...
the last of his generation standing, the last boy standing.
Tiberius kills both of her brothers, her other brothers, and Caligula becomes emperor pretty much by default.
He doesn't have to do any scheming or anything to be there.
He's just the only person who's not 12.
And then Claudius becomes emperor...
Not again through any particular scheming of his own, but because he's sort of thrust into the position as the last adult man standing.
Nero is the only person who is schemed to the throne, but that's his mother's scheming, not his.
He doesn't seem to particularly want it and probably would have been happier without it.
So if anything, she is like the most ambitious person in that family, but she has none of the tools of being able to create a political party or being able to be magnificent in war.
All she has is what seems to be an unbelievable diplomatic power, just a real ability to persuade people and a total fearlessness that she is able to use.
That means that she will
do literally anything up to and including marrying her own uncle and getting the law changed so that she can access power that is denied to her because of her sex.
She's quite young.
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