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Those About to Die Recap: Dead Emperors


Long live Anthony Hopkins!

With the help of Antnoia’s friendly servant Drusilla (Gabrielle Scharnitzky), Cala comes up with a new plan: Win the aid of Cornelia (Alice Lamanna), the daughter Antonia turned over to the powerful order of vestal virgins as a child. Yet Hermes also proves himself a capable cloak-and-dagger operator, helping his bf sneak out of house arrest when he was suspected of stealing from the imperial coffers to check out his extravagantly bewigged games master Passus’s (Victor von Schirach) new prize white lion. That’s the direction Domitian steers his brother in by staging a lurid re-creation of the sack of Jerusalem, with one of her enslaved liaisons standing in for her in drag and that white lion playing Titus.

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