Agrippina Minor - The New Empress

The project was overseen by narcissus, and over the course of 11 years, workers built five and a half kilometers of tunnels and canals to reach a natural outlet. But on the big opening day of the drain pipe, which included speeches, gladiatorial games and much pomp and circumstance, all that happened was that everyone quickly discovered the tunnel contained too tight a bend. The spectacular failure of the project was an embarrassment for claudius, but it was an even bigger one for narcissus. It did not help that claudius's new wife, agrippina, whose elevation to empress narcissus had opposed, was using the opportunity afforded by the debacl to accuse narcissus