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You called for me?

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I keep thinking about Gemellus.

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-You made the best decision.
-So you told me.

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You've proven your loyalty, Macro.

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It's time I reward you.

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[suspenseful music playing]

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You've served me well
as the head of my guard.

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But you deserve better.

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You've earned it.

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I'm appointing you Prefect of Egypt.

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If Egypt is where you feel
I can best serve you,

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it would be my honor.

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[music intensifies]

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[bird screeches]

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[crows cawing]

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[horse neighing]

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[intense music playing]

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[horse neighing]

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[both grunt]

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[heavy breathing]

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[theme music playing]

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[narrator] In a matter of days,

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Caligula has executed his heir

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and his personal guard,

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and his paranoia continues to grow.

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[Amanda Ruggeri]
Certainly, by this period,

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Caligula was concerned
that people were trying to kill him.

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He had evidence, at least it seems
that he had some evidence

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of this having been the case already.

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And he was trying to make himself
as invulnerable as possible.

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He went kind of crazy
and he was never the same

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and he started lashing out
at all of these people close to him.

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[narrator] After the betrayal
of both Gemellus and Macro,

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Caligula needs people he can trust.

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And while many fear getting close
to the emperor,

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others see an opportunity.

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I know how much you trusted him.

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I'm sorry.

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That was a mistake.

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Now you know to be more careful.

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Have you thought about who you'll name?

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I'm not in any rush.

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It's important.

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For your own protection.

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You need someone you can trust.

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Someone who owes you everything.

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[scoffs]

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And who are you suggesting?

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What you need is a son.

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I can give that to you.

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You and I are descendants
of Caesar and Augustus.

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There is no stronger bloodline.

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You're serious?

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No one could question our child's claim.

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[chuckles]

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What would people think?

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Whatever you tell them to.

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It's how the pharaohs protected
their power

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for thousands of years.

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I can help you do the same.

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Agrippina has gone down in history
as one of the most ambitious

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and power-hungry women to ever be close
to the Imperial throne.

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She was extremely well-educated,

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a very intelligent woman.

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Agrippina was unusual for women
of that time in Rome.

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However, she wasn't necessarily unusual
for women of the Imperial family.

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She wanted the throne, and she worked
her entire life to get there.

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[Caligula murmurs]

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Thank you.

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-[Caligula] Morning.
-Morning.

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Incest in Roman society was
absolutely a taboo.

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Roman myths, Roman stories

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are replete with tales that talk about
the consequences of incest,

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whether it's the outbreak of plagues
within cities

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or giant monsters being born
as a byproduct of incest.

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It was clear that Roman society
didn't just frown on such actions,

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that such actions were seen
as destructive to society.

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[intense music playing]

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[narrator] While the relationship could
jeopardize her place in society,

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as the mother of his heir,

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Agrippina would be named Empress of Rome

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and secure her position
in the Imperial family.

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After months of trying,

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Caligula and Agrippina fail
to conceive a child.

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The lack of children for Caligula seems
to have become an issue over time,

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where he realizes after his illness
that he is susceptible

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to being overthrown,

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and that there is no immediate successor
to his position.

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[narrator] Determined to produce an heir,

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Caligula sets his sights on someone else.

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Turn around.

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Go on.

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I had the jeweler make this for you.

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Here.

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It's beautiful.

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What are you doing?

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[Caitlin Gillespie]
Drusilla was famed as a beauty.

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She is very similar to her sisters,

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but Caligula favored her above all others.

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[narrator] Caligula begins
a sexual relationship

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with all three of his sisters,

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hoping that one of them
will conceive his child.

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Caligula's relationship with his sisters
is something

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that gets historians incredibly excited.

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Incest is thrown around,
left, right, and center.

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In reality, it's worth questioning
to what extent this happened.

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But either way, they wanted to make sure
that they survived.

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They knew what it was like
to be a member of the royal family.

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They knew that if they stopped
paying attention, they would die.

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[narrator] As Caligula grows
more desperate and unpredictable,

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his sisters know
that rejecting his advances

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could cause their brother to turn on them,

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and cost them their lives.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[chattering]

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It's a time to celebrate.

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Come on.

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There is no one kinder,
or more beautiful, in all of Rome.

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That's why I'm excited to share
our good news with you.

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Drusilla and I are expecting a child.

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A toast to you both.

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-To health and happiness.
-To health and happiness.

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To family.

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-To family.
-[guests] To family.

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[Caligula] To family.

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[narrator] Drusilla's pregnancy
is devastating news to Agrippina,

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and destroys any chance she had
of becoming empress of Rome.

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When Drusilla had become pregnant,

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Agrippina at this point, of course,
is looking out for herself,

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looking out for her own position.

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So you could certainly look back and see,
not only was she ambitious,

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but she's already plotting
how to turn against her own brother.

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[narrator] With a potential heir
on the way,

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Caligula gives Drusilla a higher role
within the Empire,

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and begins to treat
his younger sister as his wife.

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Drusilla became head of the house.

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I think it was a way of showing
quite how close he was to his sister

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and how important she was to his rule.

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This gives an indication that she must've
been at least aware of

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the decisions he was making as emperor.

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And it doesn't take a lot to see
how the tabloid newspapers of the time

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or the tittle-tattle of gossip
would have seen that relationship.

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[narrator] As word of Caligula's
relationship with his sister

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spreads beyond the palace,

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the Roman people begin to see him
in a different light,

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and the former "Emperor of the People"

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is now considered a sexual deviant.

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Incest was viewed as probably

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the worst sexual taboo in Ancient Rome.

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Stories of incest or other acts
of sexual depravity

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are part of the arsenal
that gets thrown against

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those who are regarded as tyrants,
despots,

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or otherwise unhelpful
political characters.

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Why is Caligula accused of incest?

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Drusilla was the sister

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whom Caligula really, seriously loved.

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And that was a great sort of scandal
to the Roman people.

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It added a sort of murderous passion

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to palace conspiracies

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and relationships inside the palace.

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Rulers had their own rules

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that were different from those
that ordinary people had to obey.

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[narrator] As public opinion sways,

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Drusilla falls ill.

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Despite being
the most powerful man in Rome,

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there is nothing Caligula can do

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to save Drusilla or the baby.

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And once again,

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the emperor is left without an heir.

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The death of Drusilla was clearly
a turning point for Caligula.

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There weren't many people
in Caligula's life,

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certainly family members, who he could
talk to and who he could rely on.

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[Adrian Murdoch] He hadn't been able
to mourn his mother.

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His father had died when he was young.

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This was the closest person
that he had had.

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So when she died,
he went completely over the top.

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He went into full mourning
as if she were his wife.

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[narrator] In the wake
of Drusilla's death,

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Caligula falls into a deep depression,

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and rather than focusing on Rome,

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he becomes obsessed
with keeping her memory alive.

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After the death of his sister Drusilla,

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Caligula's actions were even more over the
top than they had been up to that point.

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[Aaron Irvin] Her image was placed on
the statues of various goddesses.

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Temples were dedicated to her.

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Caligula spent a lavish amount of money
on a massive funeral for her,

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complete with extensive gladiatorial games

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and festivals and contests

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where hundreds of gladiators were

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slain in her honor.

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[narrator] Caligula proclaims Drusilla
a goddess,

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like Venus and Juno.

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Caligula literally gets a bill passed
naming Drusilla a goddess.

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And then even goes so far as to proclaim
that any woman taking an oath

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has to swear by the Divine Drusilla.

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No woman had ever been made a goddess,
not even Augustus' own wife at this point

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had been made a goddess.

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So this was a very, very important moment
for Roman history.

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And this is something the Roman world
had never seen before.

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You look exhausted.

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-Come, you should rest.
-I'm not tired.

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-Come to bed anyway.
-Not tonight.

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She's gone.

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You have to let her go.

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You were jealous of her.

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You were always jealous of her.

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Even when we were children.

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She was my sister, too.

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I mourned her.

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But now,
I can give you what you've lost--

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You can give me nothing!

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Because you have nothing to give.

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Now leave.

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Leave!

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[narrator] As months pass,

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Caligula's grief only gets worse,

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sending him into a state of madness,

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and the people of Rome
suffer the consequences.

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Caligula's not just a normal brother.

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He's the emperor.

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He can also take this mourning
a step beyond.

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So he passes laws saying
that during this period

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Romans aren't able to carry on
with a lot of their normal daily habits.

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There's one story about how a Roman
who was selling hot water

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is even executed
for having done so in this period.

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[grunting]

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This display of depression,

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the Romans weren't exactly sure
what to make of it,

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because this was not
how a Roman was supposed to behave

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and this was certainly not
how the ideal Roman

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as the emperor was supposed to behave.

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[man] There are matters
that require your attention.

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A column fracture has caused
a major setback

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on the temple reconstruction project
you ordered.

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Then have them rebuild it.

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Next, there's the matter
of a potential grain shortage.

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Do I need to figure out everything?

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I can't be bothered with that.

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You could defer some of your duties.

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The Senate is prepared
to oversee these matters.

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My uncle will handle it.

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Do whatever you need to.

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Any resolution will cost us.

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Give the people their grain!

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[intense music playing]

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It's very clear that Caligula
was not a well man.

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He seemed to be going out of his way
to cause offense

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because he was being
particularly hostile to the Senate.

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He's not placating them anymore.

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The initial moves that he made to try
and rule hand-in-hand with the Senate

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are completely out of the window.

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[grunting]

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[groans]

254
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[soldier groans, grunts]

255
00:25:54,136 --> 00:25:55,304
Give me your sword.

256
00:26:04,521 --> 00:26:05,522
I'd like to try.

257
00:26:08,525 --> 00:26:10,694
You don't think I know
how to wield a sword?

258
00:26:12,154 --> 00:26:13,113
Come on. One round.

259
00:26:15,730 --> 00:26:15,991
I'd rather not.

260
00:26:17,743 --> 00:26:19,495
Are you refusing your emperor?

261
00:26:25,167 --> 00:26:26,100
Fight me.

262
00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:33,592
Stop holding back!

263
00:26:41,141 --> 00:26:42,170
Fight me.

264
00:26:47,231 --> 00:26:48,650
[Caligula] Fight me.

265
00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:49,983
Come on! Fight!

266
00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:06,291
Good.

267
00:27:08,544 --> 00:27:09,461
Let's go again.

268
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[groans]

269
00:27:36,905 --> 00:27:38,782
[soldier whimpers, groans]

270
00:27:50,627 --> 00:27:52,504
Caligula did not know what he was doing.

271
00:27:53,422 --> 00:27:57,968
You have this damaged individual that you
have now thrust into a position of power,

272
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with no skills, no background,

273
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nothing but this damaged psyche,

274
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:05,350
who you have now given
all the power in the world to,

275
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and asked him to behave properly.

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[ominous music playing]

277
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[gasps]

278
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We assemble here today

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to bond two people

280
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in loving union.

281
00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:07,389
[narrator] Out of desperation for an heir,

282
00:30:08,265 --> 00:30:11,351
Caligula marries a woman
who is already pregnant

283
00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:14,146
with another man's child.

284
00:30:16,314 --> 00:30:18,734
Her name is Caesonia.

285
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...as husband

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and wife.

287
00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:29,360
[Corey Brennan] Caligula clearly put
a premium on having an heir,

288
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and he singles out a certain Caesonia,

289
00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:37,127
who had a brother who was
a famous military man.

290
00:30:37,502 --> 00:30:40,505
But the most important thing is
that she was eight months pregnant.

291
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And so her fertility was proven.

292
00:30:43,133 --> 00:30:45,427
So this was an extreme example

293
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of Caligula trying to take no chances
whatsoever, to makes sure

294
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that when he married, it was going to be
a woman who could produce an heir.

295
00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:08,784
[narrator] One month after
their wedding day,

296
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Caesonia goes into labor.

297
00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:16,410
[baby crying]

298
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,510
[baby mewls]

299
00:31:28,678 --> 00:31:30,130
Is the baby healthy?

300
00:31:30,970 --> 00:31:33,160
Yes. You have a beautiful baby girl.

301
00:31:49,116 --> 00:31:54,412
Publicly, Caligula is absolutely thrilled
that now he has this daughter.

302
00:31:54,496 --> 00:31:58,291
Privately, though, he hasn't solved
any of his problems at all.

303
00:31:58,375 --> 00:32:01,503
He is still incredibly vulnerable
to being replaced.

304
00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:04,673
His daughter will have to be
married to somebody

305
00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:08,760
someday in order to make her
a viable candidate for the throne.

306
00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,901
[narrator] While his daughter
poses no real threat,

307
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:29,197
Caligula's family knows
it's only a matter of time

308
00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:31,783
before his wife is pregnant with a son,

309
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,871
cutting off their ties to the throne

310
00:32:37,122 --> 00:32:39,499
and leaving their futures uncertain.

311
00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:49,384
[Adrian Murdoch]
Lepidus, the husband of Drusilla,

312
00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:51,344
Livilla and Agrippina

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00:32:51,428 --> 00:32:55,557
wanted to make sure
that they had a secure position.

314
00:32:56,850 --> 00:32:59,186
Here were three people
who knew what happened

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00:32:59,269 --> 00:33:01,563
if you stopped paying
attention in Ancient Rome,

316
00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:04,649
and they were going to make damn sure
it wasn't going to happen to them.

317
00:33:10,530 --> 00:33:13,617
As soon as she has a son,
he'll have no more use for us.

318
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:16,119
He's hurt so many people.

319
00:33:16,703 --> 00:33:17,704
He'll hurt us, too.

320
00:33:17,787 --> 00:33:19,247
It's just a matter of time.

321
00:33:20,457 --> 00:33:21,958
[Agrippina] Something must be done.

322
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:23,919
Like what?

323
00:33:26,755 --> 00:33:29,132
Some people can only
be dealt with one way.

324
00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:40,310
I can get him alone.

325
00:33:43,772 --> 00:33:45,774
[ominous music playing]

326
00:33:48,610 --> 00:33:52,572
[narrator] Together, Agrippina, Livilla,
and Lepidus

327
00:33:52,656 --> 00:33:55,158
devise a plan to murder Caligula.

328
00:33:57,244 --> 00:34:01,623
It will become known as
The Plot of the Three Daggers.

329
00:34:03,416 --> 00:34:07,879
The Plot of the Three Daggers
was palace intrigue at its most extreme.

330
00:34:07,963 --> 00:34:11,341
They were conspiring
to take over the throne.

331
00:34:11,633 --> 00:34:12,926
And in one sense,

332
00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:15,530
this is not too unsurprising.

333
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:20,350
All three of them, as awful as it sounds,

334
00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:22,811
for the fact that they had a conspiracy
to execute him,

335
00:34:22,894 --> 00:34:26,982
had very good reason, in some ways,
for doing so.

336
00:34:28,984 --> 00:34:31,236
They knew that when Caligula died,

337
00:34:31,319 --> 00:34:34,739
if one of them was not
the one to be in power,

338
00:34:34,823 --> 00:34:39,770
then they would almost certainly
be edged out and possibly executed.

339
00:34:39,703 --> 00:34:43,999
So to them it might have seemed
as almost a preemptive strike

340
00:34:44,820 --> 00:34:45,750
for their own preservation.

341
00:35:24,372 --> 00:35:26,291
[indistinct whispering]

342
00:35:51,775 --> 00:35:53,777
I don't know if I can do this.

343
00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:55,987
Too late for that now.

344
00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:00,909
[intense music playing]

345
00:36:14,631 --> 00:36:17,550
[theme music playing]