Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Are Assassins Heroes?
Can assassins be heroes? Can cold blooded, premeditated murder be a net good for society? It's the old would you kill baby hitler question. In modern democratic societies, the most effective weapon we have against bad leaders is the power of the ballot box. But what do you do when an entire population is essentially a hostage to a leader who is not only mentally disturbed, but actively and fatally host to the society he supposed to lead? The men of the pretorian guard were going to kill an emperor. Caligula was not an option. And no one was more aware of that painful fact than the long suffering lieutenant cassius corea. He had spent weeks amassing
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