Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Sejanus, the Most Powerful Man in Rome
Tiberius had tipped off sejanus second n command the night before, and he'd quietly taken all the other praetorians back to the castra praetoria. Seganus was completely unprepared for this verbal smack down from the emperor. He's so shell shocked that he can barely get a word out his brain. The whole thing couldn't have lasted more than about forty five minutes. After strangling him with a wire, they throw his body down the stairs,. where it lands bloody and broken in the forum of rome for everybody to see. And after he was dead, the mob halls his children before the senate and they too are executed.
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