I, ClaudiusRosetta Books, 2014 M03 6 - 472 páginas “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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... charge of them and a remedy is always found . Twice the books were partially destroyed by fire and the lost prophecies restored by the combined memories of the priests in charge . These memories seem in many instances to have been ...
... charge of them and a remedy is always found . Twice the books were partially destroyed by fire and the lost prophecies restored by the combined memories of the priests in charge . These memories seem in many instances to have been ...
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... charge - though indeed they visited her daily at Augustus's palace , which was quite close to their home on the Palatine Hill - and when she found in what way they were being educated she was greatly annoyed . My grandfather died ...
... charge - though indeed they visited her daily at Augustus's palace , which was quite close to their home on the Palatine Hill - and when she found in what way they were being educated she was greatly annoyed . My grandfather died ...
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... charge of public morals , he did some mighty queer things : they were allegedly in the name of public decency but really , it seems , to satisfy his personal spites . On his own showing , he expelled one man from the order of senators ...
... charge of public morals , he did some mighty queer things : they were allegedly in the name of public decency but really , it seems , to satisfy his personal spites . On his own showing , he expelled one man from the order of senators ...
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... charges made against her many years later , of infidelity to Agrippa while she was married to him . Certainly all her three boys resembled him closely . The true story is as follows . In her widowhood , as I have related , she fell in ...
... charges made against her many years later , of infidelity to Agrippa while she was married to him . Certainly all her three boys resembled him closely . The true story is as follows . In her widowhood , as I have related , she fell in ...
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... charge of conspiracy was groundless, but as the only surviving son of Antony, by his wife Fulvia—Augustus had put Antyllus, the eldest, to death immediately after his father's suicide, and the other two, Ptolemy and Alexander, his sons ...
... charge of conspiracy was groundless, but as the only surviving son of Antony, by his wife Fulvia—Augustus had put Antyllus, the eldest, to death immediately after his father's suicide, and the other two, Ptolemy and Alexander, his sons ...
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I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born B.C. 10 ... Robert Graves Vista de fragmentos - 1934 |
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the ... Robert Graves Vista de fragmentos - 1934 |
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