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Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Little Finger From Gamithrones by Seganus

In his decade plus as captain of the pretorian guard, seganus had played the imperial family like a fiddle. He flattered and indulged and protected tiberius, all the while hatching plans to clear the way for his own accession to the throne. With her help, Sejanus arranges to have drusus, the emperor's son, poisoned,. A few drops in a cup of wine, and boom, the heir to the throne is dead. Tiberius did have other male descendants and grandchildren, but they were just kids too young to go tototo politically.

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