Dr Emma Southon

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450 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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She's a teenager, maybe 16 or 17 years old when she marries him.

It's right at the very end of Tiberius's reign.

And she is married off to a cousin called Domitius Ahenobarbus, who is like a too close for comfort cousin.

No, she would have no power over that whatsoever.

Also, that happens after Tiberius has tried, exiled, and then murdered her mother and two brothers.

So I think that any attempt to exercise agency would have ended up with her brutally dead in a cellar somewhere.

So she has no agency over who she's going to marry.

And Ahina Barbas is notoriously a horrible, horrible person.

But one thing that she does have agency over, and which I think that she does...

very clearly use is she has agency over whether she has children or not in Tiberius's reign.

And I think it's very notable that she is married for a few years under Tiberius.

He dies in 14 and she has her one and only child, um,

about 10 months after Tiberius dies.

And I think it's very clear that she chooses not to have children while Tiberius is alive.

So she cannot choose her husband or the father of her child, but she can choose whether she has children.

And I think that it is a very interesting coincidence that that happens.

It is a boy-flavoured child.

It's incredibly useful because we're in dynastic politics here.

This is a royal family.

Girls are useful for marrying off, but boys can actually do things.

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