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Life Of Caesar

Caligula #9 – The Ships of Nemi

Life Of Caesar

Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

History

4.4594 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Nemi ships were two pleasure barges, one larger than the other, built under Caligula at Lake Nemi. Although there were several attempts to recover them from the 15th century onwards, it wasn't until 1929 that Mussolini ordered the whole of Lake Nemi would be drained and they were recovered and housed in a museum. And then the Americans decided to drop bombs on them, and they were destroyed, lost forever.

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0:00.0

just tell me you have your pants on while you listen to that that's all i need to know

0:03.8

yeah

0:09.5

boy

0:11.0

let's kill our waiter freedom

0:17.3

that's hot away to freedom.

0:22.1

That's odd.

0:25.9

I'm so butt and balled right now.

0:29.8

I probably shouldn't say that because I'll be in trouble.

0:32.9

Win, win, win.

0:36.8

This is gold.

0:40.9

Welcome back to the life of Caligula Caesar, Ray.

0:48.7

In our last episode, Ray, we were talking about Jews and Blood Libel and Androclus and the Lion. And we started talking, we got distracted.

0:53.9

But we started talking about Caligula and his adiatrepsia,

1:00.0

Greek word that means shamelessness.

1:03.0

I wanted to pick up where we left off and talk more about other forms of shamelessness that he had.

1:10.0

Do you want to run with that for a while? I do, but I just

1:14.2

wanted to say in his defense, when it comes to the exotic clothing, and obviously if you saw

1:18.7

the film, one, he's not wearing much of much, but it's pretty and it's see-through. But the point is,

1:27.3

he had a taste for exotic clothing. But if you

1:29.7

have to remember, when he was very young, his mother would dress him up as a soldier, obviously to

1:35.5

endear him to the troops. And I think she was a very intelligent woman. She was a political

1:39.9

creature. She knew exactly what she was doing. So did that start something in him? Was it there all on his

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