Poor Clau-Clau-Claudius. He stuttered, had a limp, and was deaf in one ear. Considered the family idiot, he had the misfortune to be born into a family that suffered from a congenital lack of compassion. Robert Graves’s choice of the hapless Claudius as the narrator for this work of historical ficti...
I have a distinct love of anything involving Roman histories and I saw the series years ago (after being recommended to watch it following HBO's Rome), and I adored it. I love the bumbling Claudius, I loved watching all of the intrigue and dirty secrets/plots/stories (after being forced to read th...
[Cross-posted on my blog, but with pretty pictures!]I decided that I had to read I, Claudius as soon as possible because of Brian Blessed.I was watching a documentary about the famous BBC miniseries based on the book (which I desperately want to watch) and saw Mr. Blessed -- one of my favorite peopl...
This is an intriguing story! I picked it up as a compromise - Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That was the next on my list, but I didn't feel like WW1, so went with his more popular fiction. It paid off. Claudius is an excellent narrator, the procession of Roman emperors relayed in sordid detail witho...
Listening to this on CD.I really enjoyed this book in the beginning. I enjoyed the point of view and all of the stories about ancient Rome which I think is very interesting and enjoyed learning about, but by the 25th chapter, all the characters (with extremely similar names) started to run together ...
Although this book had its highs and lows, I enjoyed it overall. As others have mentioned, the character names can be very confusing and there is not a genealogy chart included which would have been extremely helpful. It did get easier to keep track of after the first few chapters once I got into t...
While he may have overdramatised Livia and made numerous historical mistakes, this should be a must read for anyone interested in that time period as Graves is a good story teller.This book was the reason I became more eager to read and learn about history.
I picked up I Claudius and Claudius the God, because I remembered really liking the BBC Series, which we watched in Latin Class. I approached the first book with some caution, not sure if they would live up to the TV series, after all, these books were written almost 80 years ago. I was not disappoi...
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