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Robert Graves

I, Claudius

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“One of the really remarkable books of our day”—the story of the Roman emperor on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based (The New York Times).
Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control.
Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio.
“[A] legendary tale of Claudius . . . [A] gem of modern literature.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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591 бумажная страница
Дата публикации оригинала
2014
Год выхода издания
2014
Издательство
RosettaBooks
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  • Akshat Tiwariделится впечатлением9 лет назад
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    💞Loved Up
    🌴Beach Bag Book
    🚀Unputdownable

    Spellbinding ...Claudius takes u into a world full of cruelty , intrigue , deceit and debauchery. U get transported to a different era ..to an unforgiving dangerous word where lives of men mean nothing ..where ambition rules and the might is right. Couldn't put down this book once I started reading it .

  • Marcus Jean-Jacquesделится впечатлением4 года назад
    👍Worth reading

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  • Стас Малышевцитирует3 года назад
    Yes, it's readable all right, but it's not history."
  • euqihsa111цитирует7 лет назад
    (for Cæsar means a head of hair
  • Максимцитирует8 лет назад
    Yet my hope is that you, my eventual readers of a hundred generations ahead, or more, will feel yourselves directly spoken to, as if by a contemporary: as often Herodotus and Thucydides, long dead, seem to speak to me. And why do I specify so extremely remote a posterity as that? I shall explain.

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