As juicy as a summer peach, Robert Graves's 1934 novel 'I, Claudius' is a compulsively readable historical tale of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
‘I, Claudius,’ Robert Graves’s enduring 1934 historical novel, imagines an Ancient Rome with all the drama and back-biting of HBO’s ‘Succession’THINK LOCKDOWN IS bad? Imagine being surrounded by unimaginable luxury, knowing that one wrong word or glance means your death. That’s the situation in which British author Robert Graves plunks Claudius, fourth emperor of ancient Rome and protagonist of “I, Claudius,” the enduring 1934 historical novel.
Graves imagines a lost autobiography in which Claudius details the story of his family, the Julio-Claudian dynasty that included Rome’s first three emperors: Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula. The settings are sumptuous, from...
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