Angela
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Particularly if they're in the praetorian guard. Also look out for your wives and your son(s) .
Yes, indeed.
You have to admit, though, that the Ptolemies have to hold a record in that regard, at least as awful as the Ottomans, and the Ottomans didn't adopt brother/sister marriage to make it all the more horrible.:shocked:
If script writers just used their lives as plots, everyone would say it was sensationalistic nonsense.
Well, for the Julio-Claudians some pretty good blood curdling stuff has been written and made into film and tv. Have you ever read or seen "I, Claudius"? I think some of it was probably politically motivated mud-slinging gossip, but some of it was undoubtedly true.