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Let's go have a beer before we kill the Emperor...
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| This scene amused me because it showed a bunch of guys sitting around at a pub, putting back a couple of drinks while discussing how to kill the Emperor. Suetonius, Josephus, and Dio mention discussion of killing the emperor as going on here and there. The people had had enough of Caligula's bloodthirsty, psycho-slut-ness. Suetonius says, "...other [men] were still awaiting a favorable opportunity, when two men put their heads together and succeeded in killing him..." (The Twelve Caesars; 181). So this scene does have some historical backing, though it is implied by all of the authors (especially by Josephus in Book 19, Chapter 1 of his The Antiquities of the Jews) that the conspirators met in very private places. At any rate, they do support the assertion made both in the novel and in the series that Cassius led the plan. He was the muscle behind the "Let's kill Cal" party. | |||||