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I’m listening to this book and LOVING the deadpan narration on audio, especially when the topics are discussing what is murder and how we are all fascinated by crime novels and podcasts. It’s great so far!

Starting non-fiction november with this book! I'm really liking the author's narration of events :)

This is really making me want to rewatch all of the Spartacus TV show. Still extremely underrated, and more people should watch it.

I am feeling about this book the way I felt about Bitch: On the Female of the Species. A subject I'm interested in, but the author's voice is boosting my enjoyment way, way up. I need to buy a hard copy and mark all my favorite passages.

Killing one's father was the worst crime imaginable in Roman society. Cue eyerolling here. Hashtag patriarchy.

absolutely WILD that murder was not illegal for most of Rome's existence

This is giving me a whole new opinion of Julius Caesar.

I love this.

they were crazy back then

Interesting writing style, sort of jokey down with the kids prose. I think I like it but in the back of my mind I feel that it could get irritating over time

« An ego like candy floss being washed by a raccoon » I am genuinely confused as to what that’s supposed to mean

Gladiator fights were first invented to liven up the mood a bit… AT FUNERALS.

Google sea lamprey.

Enslaved people were cattle and elephants were not. So slaves had the same rights as cows and elephants had more rights than slaves.

“Be hit by a nude senator for luck.”
Good ol’ times when senators got naked and ran through the streets for valentines day, let’s bring this tradition back

I did not expect to read that Tiberius was the first ever palaeontologist

Cicero is such a dick wtf

Rome having a knife crime epidemic 😭😭

“Whenever there was a transformative moment in Roman history, there was a murder.”

“Imagine if your least favorite world leader just refused to stop being in charge when their term ended because they just didn’t want to and they also had an enormous personal army.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa I don’t have to imagine it, Emma.

Slow start :/

From the start this is hilarious.

Delightfully morbid and way too hilarious for a book about murders. I'm having a blast

The Romans really liked to kill each other.

initially wasn't loving this book, but have found myself agreeing with her in that
-cato the younger ssuuuccckkkksss
-publius claudius pulcher rocks (from afar, jesus i would not want to be in the same life time as him)

I love Emma Southen 😂😂😂

Excellent narrator for the audiobook

I’m now realizing that Suzanne Collins named like 70% of all her characters after famous Roman people.

fucking love thinking about the roman empire

please get ask a classicist how to pronounce classical names if you are reading a classical audiobook.

also how are you making emma southon's writing boring?? she's actively funny why are you being so boring,,