Doug Stanhope

And so he's made sure to square them and particularly the head of the Praetorians, a guy called Macro. He also, of course, has the blood of the deified Augustus in his veins. So there's a touch of the divine there. And the people, as we've said, adore him because he is the son of Germanicus. And so when Caligula accompanies Tiberius's body to Rome... He is mobbed and cheered the whole way.

And so he's made sure to square them and particularly the head of the Praetorians, a guy called Macro. He also, of course, has the blood of the deified Augustus in his veins. So there's a touch of the divine there. And the people, as we've said, adore him because he is the son of Germanicus. And so when Caligula accompanies Tiberius's body to Rome... He is mobbed and cheered the whole way.

And so he's made sure to square them and particularly the head of the Praetorians, a guy called Macro. He also, of course, has the blood of the deified Augustus in his veins. So there's a touch of the divine there. And the people, as we've said, adore him because he is the son of Germanicus. And so when Caligula accompanies Tiberius's body to Rome... He is mobbed and cheered the whole way.

And again, to quote Suetonius, ecstatic crowds of well-wishers called him their shining light, their chick, their poppet, their baby boy. The senators, you know, they're watching this and thinking, oh, lordy. I mean, there's nothing we can do about this. And so they vote, the 24-year-old Caligula, all the powers that it had taken Augustus a lifetime to accumulate.

And again, to quote Suetonius, ecstatic crowds of well-wishers called him their shining light, their chick, their poppet, their baby boy. The senators, you know, they're watching this and thinking, oh, lordy. I mean, there's nothing we can do about this. And so they vote, the 24-year-old Caligula, all the powers that it had taken Augustus a lifetime to accumulate.

And again, to quote Suetonius, ecstatic crowds of well-wishers called him their shining light, their chick, their poppet, their baby boy. The senators, you know, they're watching this and thinking, oh, lordy. I mean, there's nothing we can do about this. And so they vote, the 24-year-old Caligula, all the powers that it had taken Augustus a lifetime to accumulate.

And obviously they're not particularly happy about that. They must stick in their craw. Yeah, there's nothing, you know, what can they do? They've just got to suck it up.

And obviously they're not particularly happy about that. They must stick in their craw. Yeah, there's nothing, you know, what can they do? They've just got to suck it up.

And obviously they're not particularly happy about that. They must stick in their craw. Yeah, there's nothing, you know, what can they do? They've just got to suck it up.

Yeah, he does. And again, I was thinking perhaps of Charles Spencer. That's not the first one.

Yeah, he does. And again, I was thinking perhaps of Charles Spencer. That's not the first one.

Yeah, he does. And again, I was thinking perhaps of Charles Spencer. That's not the first one.

No. But in that speech that Charles Spencer gave at his sister's funeral, which kind of really ratcheted up the sense of kind of melodrama and emotional intensity. Caligula, he recognises that his status as the son of Germanicus and of Agrippina is is an important part of his kind of mythos, of his image.

No. But in that speech that Charles Spencer gave at his sister's funeral, which kind of really ratcheted up the sense of kind of melodrama and emotional intensity. Caligula, he recognises that his status as the son of Germanicus and of Agrippina is is an important part of his kind of mythos, of his image.

No. But in that speech that Charles Spencer gave at his sister's funeral, which kind of really ratcheted up the sense of kind of melodrama and emotional intensity. Caligula, he recognises that his status as the son of Germanicus and of Agrippina is is an important part of his kind of mythos, of his image.

So the moment he's arrived in Rome and become emperor, no sooner has he done that than he's off on a ship off to the prison islands where his mother and his elder brother had died. And he scoops up their ashes and he returns to Rome and he sails up the Tiber. He's on this great ship with his standard fluttering proudly in the prow.

So the moment he's arrived in Rome and become emperor, no sooner has he done that than he's off on a ship off to the prison islands where his mother and his elder brother had died. And he scoops up their ashes and he returns to Rome and he sails up the Tiber. He's on this great ship with his standard fluttering proudly in the prow.

So the moment he's arrived in Rome and become emperor, no sooner has he done that than he's off on a ship off to the prison islands where his mother and his elder brother had died. And he scoops up their ashes and he returns to Rome and he sails up the Tiber. He's on this great ship with his standard fluttering proudly in the prow.

And he lands and he then walks, rather as his mother had walked with the ashes of Germanicus, he walks with the ashes of his mother and his brothers to the great mausoleum of Augustus on the Campus Martius where he lays them. And he does this, Suetonius specifies, at midday when the city was at its busiest. So he wants everyone to see him. And he then goes out of his way

And he lands and he then walks, rather as his mother had walked with the ashes of Germanicus, he walks with the ashes of his mother and his brothers to the great mausoleum of Augustus on the Campus Martius where he lays them. And he does this, Suetonius specifies, at midday when the city was at its busiest. So he wants everyone to see him. And he then goes out of his way