Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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It would be massively scandalous not to do it that way.
But in part, it is she is choosing people, and the people that she places generally do a pretty good job.
You see the person that she makes the governor of Egypt, for example, the Praetorian of Egypt.
becomes massively important in Egyptian history.
His name is Felix.
He ends up marrying three queens.
He rules there for quite a long time.
He becomes quite controversial, but he does a reasonably good job.
She has pretty good judgment, yeah.
Yeah, it turns out she was right about Caligula.
There is a big plan, and then the plan goes wrong.
It's actually quite fun.
There's a three-day nightmare in Rome because the people who assassinate him, which is led by the head of the Praetorian Guard called Cassius Chaerea, their plan is that they're going to basically try to reinstate senatorial rule.
and that they're going to bring back the Republic properly.
Unfortunately, the Praetorian Guard and large other groups in the Senate, in fact, don't really want that.
And several people put themselves forward as an emperor, and the Praetorian Guard glom on to
Claudius, who is the last adult Julio-Claudian man starting.
And they say, no, this is a hereditary thing now.
He's going to be the emperor.
And there's kind of three days of going backwards and forwards between the Senate going, okay, well, what if we had this guy as emperor and the Praetorian guard saying, no, Claudius has now agreed to give us loads of money.
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