Caligula #8 – Shamelessness

Life Of Caesar

Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

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4.4 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

According to Suetonius, Caligula was quite proud of his "adiatrepsia" - shamelessness. He lived in habitual incest with all his sisters and was especially fond of Drusilla. He made her divorce her first husband and marry his friend and lover Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. In 37 he interrupted the wedding of Livia Orestilla so he could marry her himself - and then kicked her to the curb 24 hours later. Then he made Lollia Paulina divorce her husband and marry him - but he tired of her in six months. Then he married Caesonia, "a woman of reckless extravagance and wantonness". Six months into his rule, Caligula fell seriously ill. While he was sick in bed, Macro and Silanus apparently prepared for the worst. They started the wheels in motion for Gemellus to be declared the successor.

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0:00.0	Oh, I'm a pansy.
0:07.5	I think a lot of people were saying that about Hillary Clinton as well.
0:12.4	Need someone to explain that to me to make it make sense.
0:16.7	People brag about it.
0:21.3	It's the Wild West.
0:24.6	It's got to the point now where it's just not.
0:31.1	Like this bitch up.
0:33.0	Welcome back to Caligula.
0:35.1	Episode 8, Ray.
0:37.1	Yes, it is. How are you? How are you today, my friend? Doing good. It's our two. I don't know if I ever told you this, but I have to turn off the air, the heat when we record because it's too loud, and it's starting to get cold here. But my pants are on and I'm zipped up, so I think I'm going to be fine.
0:56.3	Very hot here.
0:58.0	It is.
0:58.9	In my office, 29.1, according to my little thermometer, which is 84.4F.
1:08.2	You know who we are?
1:09.6	You're the heat miser, and I'm the freeze miser from that show, that cartoon. I got no idea what you're talking. Oh, you got to look. Oh, you got to look that up. Anyway, I'll send you a clip. Never mind. For all the Americans out there who are of a certain age, heat miser. Please don't. Okay. That's hurtful. Yeah.
1:27.6	Now, at the end of the last episode, we were talking about the one camp behind Caligula,
1:36.0	whispering in his ear, guiding him with wisdom, it would appear, was the camp of Macro,
1:42.6	the Praetorian Prefect, and Salinas, his father-in-law,
1:46.5	the first man in the Senate, highly respected by all, including Tiberius, before he died.
1:54.2	The other camp is Caligula's inner circle, his sisters.
2:01.0	They had all survived the Tiberius years.
2:03.7	They'd lost both of their parents and two of their brothers.
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