Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Line of Early Roman Emperors
The roman imperial clan becomes so sprawling that it starts to make your head spin. This huge family, descended from julius caesar, has many branches and offshoots. While the doomed pretorian captain sejanus was scheming and accumulating power, tiberius was actively and methodically destroying a particular branch of his own family until only a single boy was left. That boy would go on to become one of the most notorious rulers in ancient history - an emperor whose sources describe as literally insane, psychotic, rapacious and nihilistic.
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