This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius and Germanicus is here.

Where by the Thames it's a beautiful late summer evening.

The water is calm. We are too, observing the 21st century where rather than tragedy we have

comedy sometimes it's called farce but comedy is the highest form of drama it

requires you to accept the fact that people are

weak and enjoy themselves in any event. And the tragic error of a hero can also

be the joy, the irony of the hero. Right now we have two

heroes. Cleopatra leading one team and a man with orange hair leading the

other who doesn't really describe a Roman emperor but I

I asked Germanicus his opinion. Nero was a great actor according to Nero. He won all the prizes at the Olympics in Greece.

And he committed suicide very poorly. He finally had his servant help, because he thought he was going to be

tortured to death by the Senate. There was no evidence that that was going to happen. But he was

haunted by the fact that he'd murdered his own mother, but very badly. He was

supposed to be haunted his own mother, but very badly. He first built a ship that was supposed to fall apart at sea, so she'd drown.

She swam to shore.

And then he sent poison once, twice, three times.

Finally, he killed her.

So he had reason to have doubts about how he would be treated by the Senate.

In any event, he was a great actor, and he loved to sing and start around the stage and he saw himself as

burdened by being the emperor. Now that isn't Trump but it's the closest I

can come in the Julian Clodian reign.

Germanica is a very good evening to you.

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