Posted by René
on 22/2/2009, 23:50:00, in reply to "Marcellus is correct!"
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They are all sons of law of an emperor.
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: Well done indeed, René! (And how silly of me -
: I should have realised that the name of the
: building was right there in the URL of the
: photo...)
:
: And Damian - I don't know whether you are
: aware of it, but one of the things you said
: about Marcellus is actually what the link is
: all about (though even after you find it,
: you may have to think twice before you
: realise that it actually does fit all the 10
: people in the quiz...)
:
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: 5. Marcus Marcellus (never heard of him) but
: thanks to Wikepedia. The clue of the picture
: was given by the picture itself.
:
: Ah..of course! I guessed Bjarne was
: referring to someone from ancient times but
: I just couldn't pin him down.Well
: done,Bjarne!
:
: As to who he was...Marcus Claudius Marcellus
: was the nephew and son-in-law of Emperor
: Augustus.The latter,with no son of his
: own,designated him as his heir after
: marrying him to his only daughter,Julia.But
: Marcellus died suddenly at the age of just
: 19.There were suspicions that he had been
: poisoned on the orders of Augustus's
: wife,Empress Livia who feared him as a rival
: to her own son Tiberius (Augustus's eventual
: successor).
:
: The author Robert Graves makes these and
: other rumours about Livia into fact in his
: novel, I Claudius.
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