[UA] Roman emperors and their sisters

[David M Jacobs]

At 03:43 AM 22/04/02 +1000, Timothy Ferguson wrote:

>I've just checked that last assertion, in the vague way of going through
>some online stemma and I'd note something I'd missed before - one emperor
>did have it away with this legal, not blood sister.  Nero was the son of a
>later wife of Claudius, by her previous husband.

Nero also came to mind, but the details were a little hazy (plus my 
research materials are a couple of thousand km away at the mo).  Caligula 
came to mind immediately, though -- probably as a result of that godawful 
Malcolm Macdowell movie.



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