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    When in Rome, whatever you do, do not eat your wife’s mushrooms!

    Dr. ZarBy Dr. ZarOctober 13, 2013Updated:June 7, 202087 Comments3 Mins Read
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    A Brief History

    On October 13, 54 A.D., Roman Emperor Claudius was poisoned to death, possibly by his wife, via tainted mushrooms!

    Digging Deeper

    Claudius is most famous for being Roman Emperor when the Roman Empire added Britain to its territory.  As such, he is generally remembered for his expansion of Roman control over a territory that would remain in Roman possession for centuries.  Yet it is with his personal life, particularly in his marriages, that we find all sorts of less impressive accomplishments.

    His first marriage was to Plautia Urgulanilla (try saying that five times fast!).  This marriage ended when he divorced her, alleging she committed adultery, while also suspecting her of involvement in the murder of her sister-in-law.  To add further insult to injury, when she bore a child but months after their divorce, Claudius declared the child was not his and had it returned to her mother.  Claudius married a second wife only to divorce her as well, albeit for less interesting reasons.

    His third marriage, however, almost defies belief.  Yes, some filmmakers even made the Italian sex comedy film Caligula II: Messalina, Messalina about this particularly infamous wife.  Moreover, she appears prominently in I, Claudius for her alleged competition with a prostitute to determine who could “bed” the most men.  Spoiler alert: The Empress won!!  Not surprisingly, given Messalina’s disgraceful behavior, Claudius did not merely divorce this wife, but had her beheaded.

    After three wives being divorced or beheaded, surely a fourth wife would be better?  No, of course not!

    The fourth time he would not be the one to end the marriage.  Agrippina the Younger, Claudius’s final wife, was also his niece.  Yet, if the incest is not enough to raise a red flag, her ambitious nature should have done more to concern him.  She had ambitions for her son Nero from her previous marriage rather than Claudius’s son with Messalina to become emperor and according to legend poisoned her husband with a plate of deadly mushrooms, which just goes to show if you live by the sword, you die by the…mushrooms?  Oh, and as for Claudius’s son with Messalina, he too was poisoned at a party attended by Agrippina, his step-mother.  If you are wondering about the fate of Agrippina and Nero, they also met bizarre and violent ends, but let us save those incidents for another day…

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    Historical Evidence

    The best and most entertaining primary sources on Claudius and his demise are the Apocolocyntosis by Seneca and “The Life of Claudius” by Suetonius.  PBS also has an interactive game on its website in which you can play as Claudius and his successor Nero to see how you would do as a Roman Emperor!

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    1. Avatar
      James S on October 13, 2013 5:07 pm

      Wow, the ice king is better at marriage than this guy. His speech impediment probably didn’t help him much with the ladies though.

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      James W on October 13, 2013 6:31 pm

      I feel there were signs he shoudl’ve picked up like oh I dont know crossed, and or blood lusting eyes. Dudes walking out of her private rooms, maybe maps labeled “Secret Plans to Kill Emperor”

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      Theresa Kesic on October 13, 2013 6:46 pm

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      First, marrying within your own gene pool is probably never a very good idea! I think all these woman had an ulterior motive when they married him. I believe they were looking for power of their own and used him as a way to gain it because he was easily controlled.

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      KRT on October 13, 2013 7:14 pm

      He is just a really bad judge of character. Obviously none of the women loved him all they loved was the money and power.

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      Angela Reed on October 13, 2013 9:23 pm

      I just think he jumped into marriages way too fast! And when that wasn’t enough, he married his niece? That doesn’t sound like a whack job at all… Anyways, I think the woman buttered him up and then when they got married, the women tried to use him to gain a powerful status of their own.

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      Lia Hart on October 13, 2013 9:30 pm

      It is obvious, every women that was ambitious and wanted power tried to get with this guy. I think he didn’t come off intimidating; otherwise, his wives would be too scared to betray him and would have to much respect to do so as well. Either, he jumped into marriages too fast or married women for their looks or he just was too gullable .

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      Karl Paulik on October 13, 2013 11:04 pm

      I think it shows people did not believe he was a man of power or one who had a backbone. These women obviously did not respect him and thought they could use him to make themselves in a better position.

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      brent on October 14, 2013 12:08 am

      His longing for a companion was his downfall I think if you try and fail twice at marriage then you should just stop.

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      Zach V on October 14, 2013 10:17 am

      Perhaps he just had bad luck picking out wives. In any case I think you would have to be home more often then not to make a good relationship and to also make it last.

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      Ty Rodgers on October 14, 2013 1:11 pm

      Claudius was too busy trying to expand the Empire. What was his wives supposed to do in the months that they had no contact. Perhaps if he would have been there more, he would have had better relationships. But he wouldn’t be as well known or popular today.

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      Abigail Allison on October 17, 2013 4:46 pm

      Perhaps Claudius was just a poor judge of character and was too hopelessly romantic to see that these women didn’t want him, but were after his power. Maybe he couldn’t resist a power-hungry female and was unable to learn from his previous wives. Or maybe we don’t have all the details. This paints Claudius as a victim, but maybe he was a huge jerk and the women were simply giving him what he deserved.

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      JLS on October 17, 2013 8:41 pm

      Maybe Claudius was not successful in any of his marriages because he was always gone. He obviously didn’t learn anything from the first or second marriage. If in fact he did stay around any of his wives longer maybe the first two would not have allegedly committed adultery.

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      Matthew Bisson on October 18, 2013 11:44 am

      Claudius was not successful partly probably because he was paranoid that his empresses were cheating on him and etc. If it was true then he obviously was just falling for lustful women that weren’t getting what they needed from him. Which in the end with his bad judgement of women it finally took his life.

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      Jake Woolf on November 12, 2013 2:26 pm

      Positions of power tend to draw unscrupulous characters; Claudius’ suspicions of infidelity were probably quite warranted (power, even imagined power, has a tendency to corrupt in more ways than just political). In addition to this, Claudius probably also succumbed to what many men have, still, and will continue to succumb to; mistaking initial lust for something that might have longevity and fulfillment.

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      Titus Rice on November 15, 2013 6:26 pm

      Anybody who could have his wife executed has to be a real asshole and it was a matter of time before it caught up with him.

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      rf on November 26, 2013 10:25 pm

      Claudius seems to have some insecurity issues. Loves too quickly, probably crowded his women, and probably quite the jerk after about the first week or so. His wife who had poisoned him probably wanted to not only to hog the wealth and all that comes with it, but she didn’t want to lose her head as well!!! Why not pretend to love someone and marry into riches, kill the man who had killed and disrespected the previous lovers, then inherit everything….well lets not forget to kill off everyone who has a chance of taking it all from you…..sounds good I probably would have “got” him before he “got” me!!!!

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      Cody on October 7, 2014 11:29 pm

      Clearly Cladius isn’t having much luck with the ladies. It’s unfortunate he was cheated on & had to deny his own child.

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      ryan Mains on October 8, 2014 11:20 am

      Very strange way of death for Claudius, and sad too, because he seemed to be running the empire well during his reign. I guess it just goes to show that women really can’t be trusted.

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      Nicole Buzalka on October 8, 2014 1:13 pm

      It’s crazy to me how quickly he went through wives and how different problems were with each of them.

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      M Pribula on October 8, 2014 2:41 pm

      It’s too bad about Claudius and his son but at least they weren’t betrayed by their own men like his predecessor, Caligula.

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      Josh Greiner on October 8, 2014 3:06 pm

      It is interesting how many wives he went through in such a short period of time.

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      imengri17 on October 8, 2014 3:41 pm

      Wow this was very fun to read. More intense than all the Hollywood marriage scandals of the past few decades that I can recall!

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    23. Avatar
      Drew K on October 8, 2014 4:46 pm

      I think it’s cooler that he was able to add more territory to the Roman empire. The whole crazy wives thing is just a bonus.

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    24. Avatar
      Alex Colucy on October 8, 2014 7:02 pm

      Seems like he should have picked someone better to marry.

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      Matt Oswald on October 8, 2014 9:51 pm

      It’s hard to believe he went through so many wives. You think he would learn his lesson after the second or third wife.

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      E.S. on October 8, 2014 10:38 pm

      You would think after having 3 wives and all 3 being divorced or beheaded that maybe being married was not for him….. But instead he was married once more and It cost him his life … That’s something that Hollywood should make a movie about!!!

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      Lexi DeRoia on October 9, 2014 12:06 am

      If you watch the movie Claudius I, you’ll see that he was known to be the target for jokes.

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      Matt Riley on October 9, 2014 9:20 am

      Well seems like nothing can satisfy someone in power. Then again it was a different time and different place but still.

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      DAVID WARDLE on October 9, 2014 10:28 am

      If the third time is not a charm… perhaps you should reconsider marrying again! — DAVID WARDLE

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      Marisa M. on October 9, 2014 11:07 am

      It looks like Claudius should have given up after that third wife. In his case a “happy wife” does not equal a “happy life.”

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      Daryl Walsh on October 9, 2014 11:10 am

      I guess deciding to stay single wasn’t an option at the time for poor Claudius

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      E.Ejsmont on October 9, 2014 11:52 am

      It is interesting to see that he married his own niece and that she out smarted him

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      Alex on October 9, 2014 3:24 pm

      I found it interesting that Claudius had so many marriages that ended in divorce. In those days, I didn’t even think divorce was permitted.

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      Cody Perotti on October 9, 2014 3:26 pm

      I’m never getting married. I can’t trust these ambitious women! Just kidding! It’s pretty ironic that all of these Roman emperors were being assassinated. I feel as if it would be a death sentence to hold such power in ancient Rome

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      Hannah Overberger on October 9, 2014 3:33 pm

      That’s crazy that his wife may have been the one to poison him.

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      GB on October 9, 2014 8:32 pm

      He should be just stayed single. Would have made things less complicated.

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      Alexa B on October 9, 2014 10:55 pm

      And it gets weirder… People need to stop with incest its getting disturbing. But its interesting that his wife may have been to poison him. Moral of the story don’t get married

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      MS on October 10, 2014 12:59 am

      Kinda weird marrying your niece, I wonder what the age difference was. I mean, she already had her own son, but Claudius had also gone through 3 wives like they were tissue paper.

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      Angelina Huber on October 10, 2014 3:25 am

      I wonder how old Claudius’ niece actually was because she already had a son when she married Claudius! The age gap must have been extremely large, and I cannot believe she would go to so much trouble as to murder her husband who was also her uncle! That is extremely messed up in so many different ways.

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      jon h on October 10, 2014 2:53 pm

      I wonder if agrippina would have reconsidered if she knew what kind of emperor Nero would go on to be. Kind of a shame really.

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      Michelle tuck on October 11, 2014 7:12 pm

      It is all too common for people to simply just get beheaded, at least throughout history. I am fearing that we are heading toward a repeat of that.

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      Briana Yost on October 12, 2014 4:51 am

      What a crazy love life Claudius had! I think that hearing these stories of husbands beheading wives and wives poisoning their husband is insane that it might have been real! I could imagine having a ruler with such a weird life.

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      Ellen U on October 12, 2014 5:17 pm

      Maybe after his first three wives didn’t work out, Claudius should have just stopped trying…

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      Rachael Harrington on October 12, 2014 10:54 pm

      I am actually really surprised that he just divorced his first and second wives, instead of killing them. I do feel however that he got his payback from his fourth wife for killing his other wives.

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      rpugliese16 on October 13, 2014 9:02 pm

      I don’t know why any one who knew the history of this mans wives would even consider marrying him…

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      Lexi DeRoia on October 14, 2014 12:37 am

      Claudius just had some bad luck in regards to finding reasonable wives.

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      IG on October 14, 2014 10:09 pm

      Once again, it’s a shame that such potential was wasted. I think that emperor Claudius could have potentially been better than Caesar or Augustus if his wife hadn’t murdered him. It’s pretty sad that human beings in general can have such a complex in terms of power and will do literally anything (even ruining potentially one of the greatest leaders of Rome and possibly human history). It’s a lesson that people in power should really watch who they associate themselves with, because it wouldn’t surprise me that stuff like this still happens today.

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      Vince Ziccardi on October 14, 2014 10:30 pm

      I think it sucks how Claudius had to marry three times! Thinking that the third one was the charm, he was poisoned by her!

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      BM on October 19, 2014 12:40 am

      Ew its weird to think he married his niece…but he should have picked better wives and maybe not killed them

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      S Eilerman on October 27, 2014 6:54 pm

      Claudius really had bad luck with the ladies. His second marriage seemed to have the least problems, or maybe like it says they were just the least interesting. Either way all four of his marriages ended out bad, so maybe it was him.

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      Jake B on November 20, 2014 11:32 am

      There are some weird and interesting stories about these Roman emperors and this is one of them.

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      Rachael Petrime on December 11, 2014 10:57 am

      Wow this guy sure does know how to pick wives.

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      rhammel on November 17, 2015 6:04 pm

      I probably would have been a little hesitant after the first 3 marriage fails.

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      Anthony Jones on November 18, 2015 4:46 pm

      It’s always mind jarring to think that an Empress would challenge a prostitute to see who could sleep with the most men in a night, and win!

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      N Beauchemin on December 1, 2015 4:04 pm

      Would seem that maybe Claudius wasn’t so good at picking his spouses. Sad one of the few decent Emperors from that period was killed by his strange domestic mishaps.

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      Madison Ertle on December 6, 2015 3:19 pm

      I feel like after the second failed marriage you should probably given up and I think he should have followed that rule. I find it interesting he did not claim his own kid!

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      nate haller on December 10, 2015 7:04 pm

      I feel he had really bad luck picking his wives so as the saying goes third time the charm so I would have stopped then. since it caused him his life with his fourth wife killing him with mushrooms.

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      Tammy on December 12, 2015 11:03 pm

      I would think that his niece would have been more loyal, since she was family. Ironically, she turned out to be the worst wife of the bunch!

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      Cheyenne Johnson on December 15, 2015 8:11 pm

      i find it interesting how many times marriage between family members happened in these times, if someone did that now it would be very disliked

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      EP on December 16, 2015 12:59 pm

      The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Claudius should have stayed married to his second wife. The third and fourth wives were crazy, and marrying your niece is disgusting!

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      AB on December 17, 2015 4:00 am

      Persistence counts for something, right?

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      MMA on February 29, 2016 12:24 pm

      I find odd how it was almost a must to constantly have a wife. I feel as though back in the B.C. era and earlier that it was custom to always be married no matter how many times it did not work. Unfortunately for him he just had really bad luck, marriages did not work and they eventually ended up killing him. If it were not a custom to be married at all time he may have never been killed by eating mushrooms.

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      Meg Arrendale on March 14, 2016 12:17 pm

      He should have just stayed married to his second wife. And his niece, really? So gross.

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      Sarah Shaheen on April 6, 2016 11:04 am

      He had terrible luck. Marrying your niece then being poisoned by your third wife! that’s insane and it really sucks for him.

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      Erin R on April 27, 2016 3:58 pm

      I understand that he needed an heir to his throne, but at this point, was it necessary to continue to marry? I know this was common for the time, but completely unnecessary.

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      SRP on May 2, 2016 10:04 pm

      I think that he should have stayed married to his second wife and not go for the third! I find it so gross about him marrying his niece. Maybe if he stayed married to his second wife he would still be alive.

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      APG on May 8, 2016 4:24 pm

      Why were people so obsessed with having an heir to take over? Why did they have to get married before trying to produce an heir? Just made the process more tedious.

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      Tevin Knerr on May 9, 2016 5:04 pm

      it surprises me he did not claim his own child.

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      MM on October 13, 2016 9:39 pm

      I have never heard of such a story! I also cannot believe that he was remarried 4 times.. that just about shocked me as much as his wife poisoning him!

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      TC on October 16, 2016 7:46 pm

      It shocks me that someone would remarry so many times! Reminds me of the TV show Friends when Ross gets married a lot… 😀

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      Reilly on October 20, 2016 12:27 pm

      he sure knows how to pick them lol

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      Matthew Goss on November 26, 2016 9:54 am

      Seems like the easy fix to bad marriages back in the day was to just kill the other off, glad it is not like that anymore!

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      Shane Skuhrovec on November 28, 2016 6:18 pm

      Back in ancient times, it seems that if a marriage was not going well, divorce was not the option. Instead killing the other person was a better option to them. I am glad that in today’s society, if a marriage is not doing well then the two get a divorce and that is the end of it.

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      KR on December 12, 2016 1:29 am

      My Italian class covered a section over old marriage laws in Italy that supposedly made murder a favorable alternative to divorce in society for awhile. There’s even a film about it. Ancient Rome seems to have had similar ideas, when it came to bad marriages.

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      Matthew Olen on December 14, 2016 2:16 pm

      Thankfully laws have advanced and divorces are an option rather than just killing the other.

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      Bryan Mersol on December 15, 2016 7:25 pm

      the links provided were pretty neat and added value to the article

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      Tom Kubrak on December 16, 2016 11:32 am

      I feel that polygamous relationships are bad in a sense due to the risk of all of the wives that have been divorced can band together and kill their ex-husband.

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      Mason Nist on March 14, 2017 8:08 am

      It is one thing to poison your husband, but Claudius was also Agrippina the Younger’s Uncle! I could see an interesting parody of this as a reality TV show.

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      Robert Miller on March 15, 2017 9:42 am

      Marriage in ancient times seems to be utility more often than love with all the killing between spouses we saw.

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      Aurora Umberger on March 18, 2017 2:50 pm

      This is why you don’t marry your niece

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      kayla connelly on March 20, 2017 10:56 pm

      incest is disgusting but in the ancient times it seems to be very common.

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      Sydney P. on April 30, 2017 2:43 pm

      The fact that the Empress took on a prostitute to see who could sleep with the most men is hilarious.

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      Heather Layton on May 4, 2017 7:09 pm

      Apparently he didn’t have very good taste in women.

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      Marynette Holmes on May 9, 2017 9:19 pm

      He should of just stayed single! hahah! Back in the day i would make someone tase my food and drink every time if i was a king!

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      Casey Jones on May 10, 2017 1:04 am

      Good for him for getting back on the market. Horrible choices of women, but he tried.

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      Mischa Klenovich on October 14, 2017 6:51 pm

      I would have been thoroughly disappointed had this story not been turned into a comedy of some form. I’m proud of the human species that it has.

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      Jarrett M on October 16, 2017 8:27 pm

      I feel like Claudias got his just desserts after he split up with 3 other women. Interesting that he was done in by mushrooms though.

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