READERS of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius will remember that that book ended with the assassination of Caligula and the election by the army of Claudius as emperor. Claudius the God is not so much a ...

Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

In 1934, English poet and historian Robert Graves electrified the literary world with his novel I, Claudius, which along with its 1935 sequel Claudius The God told the story of nearly 100 years of the ...

You may have seen I, Claudius airing on a local PBS station during a pledge drive.¿ You may have been momentarily interested by a brief flash of nudity or a sword in ...

The making of the 1976 BBC mini-series I, Claudius was fraught with headaches. The spectre of an ill-fated, unfinished 1937 movie version starring Charles Laughton loomed large. At one point the ...

In a city rife with backstabbers, an overlooked member of Rome’s ruling family plays dumb to stay alive and unwittingly becomes the most powerful man on earth. Robert Graves’ brilliant novel has been ...

In excellent news for hungover history teachers, HBO has won the long sought-after rights to make a new adaptation of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, the historical novel that offers testimony to the idea ...

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