CSA Word Classic: Claudius the God (Audiobook)

from Juva

Claudius continues his autobiography, tracing the dark prophecy of the Caesars to it's conclusion in Nero. He never wanted to be emperor - in fact, he was a staunch republican. However, when fate intervened and an army offered him the choice of ruling or death, he made an unlikely decision. After...

from wildbill

This is the second volume in a two volume biography written by Robert Graves in 1934 and 1935. It was the basis for the I Claudius series that was produced in 1976 with Derek Jacobi playing the part of Claudius. A lot of the material was taken from the biography of Claudius in the book Twelve Cae...

from uvula_fr_b4

If I liked this book very slightly less than its predecessor, I, Claudius, it's only because its scope is a trifle narrower: whereas I, Claudius was as much, if not more, a novel of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire as well as a semi-fictional biography of the J...

from PilgrimJess

"Most men-it is my experience-are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble mediocrities." Claudius the God is the sequel to I, Claudius, and takes up the story two tears afte...

from datrappert

The second (and much sadder) half of the story of Emperor Claudius of Rome. Essential reading if you have read the first half, but it will make you a bit sad. For all his faults, we came to rather admire Claudius in the first book, but in this one he is not quite as secretly capable, or--more imp...