It's the ancients on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Chuseyour-Host and in today's podcast, it is a great story.

We're following the case of a specific murder from ancient Rome, from late Republican

Rome, the murder of a man called Claudius.

To tell the story of this infamous event in late Republican Roman history.

And also to tell the story of Claudius, this quite horrible figure.

I was delighted to get back on the show, the one and only Doctor Emma Southern.

Emma is hilarious, she's been on the podcast once before to talk all about the eyes of

March.

This was a really fun chat, you're going to absolutely love it.

So without further ado, to talk through the hilarious, gruesome, horrible, bizarre, extraordinary

story of Claudius, here's Emma.

Emma, it is wonderful to have you back on the podcast.

It is wonderful to be back, it's always a joy to be here and be horrible about some very

rich and well respected people from the past.

This is what we do on the ancients, this is exactly it.

And this story, I love this story when I look at the research, I mean, it focuses at its

heart, it's a two completely horrible people from ancient Rome, but there are arguably

also some of them, the most colorful people from ancient Rome too.

They are, they're all anecdote machines, you put anything into them and they just pull

out an anecdote.

And every minute of particularly Claudius' life is just a lesson in how to be the most

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