Emperors of Rome Podcast - Calin Davenport

There are many reasons why we shouldn't necessarily take dio's accountet at face value. I mean, caracala wasn't a nice let's get that straight. But cassiusto is not part of his innermost coteree. So he's feeling left out from that. And certainly the idea of distributing these roman privileges to more people is going to rankle many people in the senatorial order.