I wrote
Nah. Wrong group, but to me, Vila is the obvious Claudius choice.
Then Stephen Date wrote:
With Blake as his dear brother Germanicus.
Which makes Avon Herod Agrippa?
me:
Bayban the Butcher as Caligula?
Stephen:
I don't think Caligula would have lasted long in the B7 Universe.
Oh, I don't know, he survived Sejanus and Tiberius at his most paranoid while all his siblings and his mother perished. (Of course, as Livia points out, part of the reason was Tiberius wanted to have a successor less popular than himself, but still...)
Also, Bayban didn't last that long, either.
Travis as Tiberius?
Very definitely. Both disillusioned conservatives. Someone (I think Tacitus) quotes Tiberius as quoting a Greek epigraph to the effect that after him the world could end in fire. I think Travis would recognise a kindred spirit there. Would that make Maryatt the Drusus figure in Travis' life ?
Yes! With the letter scene mirrored in the "he saved my life" scene from "Deliverance".
Tanja