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* MagnificentBitch: [[EvilMatriarch Livia Drusilla]], wife of UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, is a ruthless schemer set to put her son Tiberius on the throne. Poisoning her daughter-in-law Julia's husband to free her for marriage and later poisoning her second husband after biding her time, Livia arranges for the deaths and ruination of multiple impediments and rivals: revealing the affairs of Julia to ruin her, arranging an affair between Julia's son Postumus and her own granddaughter before framing Postumus of assaulting her and later having him disposed of. Livia even kills Augustus himself with poison she smears on his personal figs even as she mourns him. Upon finding Tiberius a revolting disappointment, she assists in UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}'s rise, though conceals the prophecy that UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}} will succeed Caligula as Emperor from the former, telling Claudius the truth of all that has transpired before her death with his vow that he will elevate her to a goddess when he is Emperor to save her from hell's torments.
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* MagnificentBitch: MagnificentBastard: [[EvilMatriarch Livia Drusilla]], wife of UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, is a ruthless schemer set to put her son Tiberius on the throne. Poisoning her daughter-in-law Julia's husband to free her for marriage and later poisoning her second husband after biding her time, Livia arranges for the deaths and ruination of multiple impediments and rivals: revealing the affairs of Julia to ruin her, arranging an affair between Julia's son Postumus and her own granddaughter before framing Postumus of assaulting her and later having him disposed of. Livia even kills Augustus himself with poison she smears on his personal figs even as she mourns him. Upon finding Tiberius a revolting disappointment, she assists in UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}'s rise, though conceals the prophecy that UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}} will succeed Caligula as Emperor from the former, telling Claudius the truth of all that has transpired before her death with his vow that he will elevate her to a goddess when he is Emperor to save her from hell's torments.
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** Exile to places like Pandateria and Rhodes are treated as almost a FateWorseThanDeath (not without justification, as the people sent there are held in isolation and were sometimes deliberately starved) when today these places are considered beautiful tourist destinations that people dream of visiting.
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** Exile to places like Pandateria and Rhodes are treated as almost a FateWorseThanDeath (not without justification, as the people sent there are held in isolation and were sometimes deliberately starved) when today these places are considered beautiful tourist destinations that people dream of visiting.[[note]]Frankly, even back then, neither place was a particularly bad destination if you weren't an Imperial family member being kept away from the limelight -- Pandateria was the site of one of Augustus's many palatial summer homes, and Rhodes was an important center of learning and commerce for the Eastern Mediterranean.[[/note]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: The final act of the series, covering Claudius' reign, closes out with Messalina and Nero as major opponents to Claudius. They are both pretty low-grade (even clichéd) villains Messalina is an immature and foolish SmugSnake, and Nero is a bumbling caricature who is entirely directed by his mother. But given the complexity and intelligence of previous antagonists such as Livia or Sejanus, the disappointing nature of Claudius' final enemies is just more evidence of how Roman society is degrading on every level: it can't even produce good schemers anymore.
** Another bit of FridgeBrilliance: It is during Caligula's reign that Claudius gets closest to revealing his act as a silly stuttering half-wit. There are two reasons for that: Caligula is crazy so acting the fool doesn't protect Claudius as much, so he is under constant pressure to keep his wits sharp. The second reason is that Caligula was present every time Claudius did the little plotting he had, such as smuggling the leters to the emperor and causing the fall of Sejanus so Caligula knows Claudius is not as silly as he acts.
** Another bit of FridgeBrilliance: It is during Caligula's reign that Claudius gets closest to revealing his act as a silly stuttering half-wit. There are two reasons for that: Caligula is crazy so acting the fool doesn't protect Claudius as much, so he is under constant pressure to keep his wits sharp. The second reason is that Caligula was present every time Claudius did the little plotting he had, such as smuggling the leters to the emperor and causing the fall of Sejanus so Caligula knows Claudius is not as silly as he acts.
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** Another bit of FridgeBrilliance: It is during Caligula's reign that Claudius gets closest to revealing his act as a silly stuttering half-wit. There are two reasons for that: Caligula is crazy so acting the fool doesn't protect Claudius as much, so he is under constant pressure to keep his wits sharp. The second reason is that Caligula was present every time Claudius did the little plotting he had, such as smuggling the leters to the emperor and causing the fall of Sejanus so Caligula knows Claudius is not as silly as he acts.
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** Did Antonia have her slave carry out her instructions to cut off her hand for separate burial instead of Claudius because she really thought he'd forget, or did she want to spare him the pain of mutilating his own mother after seeing how grief-stricken he was when she told him she was going to take her own life?
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* ValuesResonance: Divorce was a commonplace thing in AncientRome, but was still a bit taboo in TheThirties, when the book was written, and still not as common in 1976, when the TV show ran, as it is today.
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* FridgeBrilliance: The final act of the series, covering Claudius' reign, closes out with Messalina and Nero as major opponents to Claudius. They are both pretty low-grade (even clichéd) villains Messalina is an immature and foolish SmugSnake, and Nero is a bumbling caricature who is entirely directed by his mother. But given the complexity and intelligence of previous antagonists such as Livia or Sejanus, the disappointing nature of Claudius' final enemies is just more evidence of how Roman society is degrading on every level: it can't even produce good schemers anymore.
