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🗓️ 18 July 2023
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July 18, 64 AD. When the Great Fire of Rome reduces two-thirds of the city to ashes, Emperor Nero uses the catastrophe as an excuse to persecute a new religious group: the Christians.
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0:20.5 | It's March 23rd, 59 AD. On a cool, clear night in ancient Rome, a woman stands on a balcony looking |
0:36.0 | out over the dark city. Agrippina the Younger is the mother of Rome's emperor, Nero, |
0:41.3 | and she's one of the most powerful people in the Roman Empire. As she stares off into the night, |
0:46.9 | Agrippina hears some commotion down below. She peers over the balcony and sees a group of |
0:52.3 | armed centurions aggressively approach the door of her villa. Agrippina immediately recognizes the man |
0:58.0 | leading the group. It's her son, Nero's brutish enforcer, a former slave, named Anacetus. |
1:04.0 | Agrippina watches silently as Anacetus and his henchmen overpower her guards. |
1:09.2 | Barge inside the building. Agrippina slowly turns and walks back inside. She knows exactly why |
1:15.3 | Anacetus is here. Her son has sent him to kill her. When Nero first became emperor, he was still a |
1:22.0 | boy. In his youth, Agrippina served as Nero's regent, but now that he's a man, it seems Nero no |
1:28.6 | longer wants his mother telling him what to do. Agrippina is hardly surprised by her son's actions. |
1:34.9 | Nero already tried to assassinate her once and failed. Now he sent his slave to finish the job, |
1:41.0 | but Agrippina is a strong woman. She won't run or hide. She will meet her fate with resolve. |
1:47.6 | Agrippina can hear the screams of her startled maid servants as the centurions force their way |
1:52.4 | through the house. Then, her door flies open and the intruder storm inside her bedsheet. |
1:58.6 | Agrippina coldly surveys the armed centurions who threaten her. |
2:02.6 | And after a moment, Anacetus enters the room and strides right up to Agrippina, |
2:07.4 | his expression grim and resolute. Agrippina straightens her back, opens her mouth to speak, |
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