17 Lucius Verus

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Hadrian wanted Marcus to rule. Antoninus Pius wanted Marcus to rule. The senate wanted Marcus to rule. Marcus wanted to read his books so asked his little brother for some help. Fortunately for the empire, Marcus' brother was Lucius Verus; a man who had great qualities such as loving drink, gambling, chariot racing and beating people up in taverns... oh... hang on... That's not a good sign is it?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:10.0	This week, Marcus.
0:14.0	No.
0:15.0	No?
0:16.0	No.
0:17.0	What?
0:18.0	What?
0:19.0	But you said it... You said last episode. Just say the name. What? But you said it...
0:21.6	Just say the name.
0:23.6	Welcome to Totalis Rangium.
0:26.6	This week, Lucius Verus. Hello and welcome to Roman emperors. I'm Jamie.
0:47.3	And I'm Rob ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus, episode 17.
0:52.3	Episode 17.
0:53.3	And it's not Marcus Aurelius. No, it's not. It's definitely not.
0:58.2	No, no, it's not. It's Lucius. Lucius Veris, who you do know. Yeah, he, wasn't he the brother or something?
1:06.0	The adopted brother. Adopted brother. Yeah, he is. So he's not one of the five good emperors. No, oh. So does he count? Not really. He's kind of glossed over a lot. So are we being truthful or are we... Well, there's debate. And I was wondering whether to do him or not. But then I thought, why not? Because he's quite fun. I like fun. Let's do it. Let's do it. So, first of all, in my notes, I've got who as a subheading?
1:33.2	Oh.
1:33.6	Just to recap, who is Lucius? Where has he come from?
1:37.5	Let's find out.
1:38.6	So if you have a look back at your family tree that you drew last week, yes.
1:45.5	There we go. there we go.
1:46.1	There we go.
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