Episode B33 – Semiramis

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Synopsis: Caracalla cuts a murderous path through Rome, and provokes a dangerous war with Parthia. After his murder, Julia Domna is forced to contend with a would-be usurper. “Julia Domna deserved all that the stars could promise her. She possessed, even in advanced age, the attractions of beauty, and united to a lively imagination a firmness of mind, and strength of judgement, seldom bestowed on her sex. Her amiable qualities never made any deep impression on the dark and jealous temper of her husband; but in her son’s reign, she administered the principal affairs of the empire, with a prudence that supported his authority, and with a moderation that sometimes corrected his wild extravagancies.” – Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, Chapter 6 The Bloodline Family Tree – Part I https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/B33_Bloodline01.pdf The Bloodline Family Tree – Part II https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/B33_Bloodline02.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.8	Episode B 33, Samarimus. Julia Domino was covered in blood, the blood of her family, the blood of her son. His arms lost their strength and let go of her neck and his body
1:07.1	slid down to the floor. The centurians who'd killed him likely stood transfixed, shocked by the enormity of their crime.
1:17.6	Just behind them Julia saw the man responsible for a get his death. His own brother, the now sole Roman emperor, Karakala.
1:27.0	The room quickly empty as Karakala rushed with his troops to the Pretorian camp.
1:34.9	In their wake, the blood-soaked Empress was left alone with the mangled corpse of her son.
1:42.4	No matter what she'd been through, no matter what she'd done, nothing
1:46.8	could have prepared her for the scene. It's hard to know which feeling would have
1:51.8	been the most overpowering.
1:54.0	Regret, grief, or fear.
1:58.2	Two factions, two power bases, even a royal palace divided in half, the climax was inevitable in retrospect.
2:07.0	Karakala, supposedly more favored by the army, and GEDA more favored by the Senate.
2:15.0	As their rivalry grew, a radical proposal was made to divide up the empire east East and West.
2:23.0	Gedad assumed the role of his ancestor Mark Antony, ruling Egypt and all provinces east of the
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