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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... heard the story and for a long time never referred to my father except playfully as " the free - born Roman " . Whenever he was in Rome now my father chafed at the growing spirit of subservience to Augustus that he everywhere ...
... heard the story and for a long time never referred to my father except playfully as " the free - born Roman " . Whenever he was in Rome now my father chafed at the growing spirit of subservience to Augustus that he everywhere ...
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... heard it years later, that there was more of the old Roman spirit of liberty to be found in a single company of his soldiers than in the whole senatorial order. Shortly before his death he wrote Tiberius a bitter letter to this effect ...
... heard it years later, that there was more of the old Roman spirit of liberty to be found in a single company of his soldiers than in the whole senatorial order. Shortly before his death he wrote Tiberius a bitter letter to this effect ...
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... heard this account from Xenophon , a Greek from the island of Cos , who was quite a young man at this time . He was my father's staff - surgeon and had been much disgusted that my grandmother's physician had taken the case out of his ...
... heard this account from Xenophon , a Greek from the island of Cos , who was quite a young man at this time . He was my father's staff - surgeon and had been much disgusted that my grandmother's physician had taken the case out of his ...
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... heard it said that this pain, which they call “the cardiac passion”, is worse than any other pain known to man except the strangury. Well, I must be thankful, I suppose, that I have never had the strangury. It will be supposed that my ...
... heard it said that this pain, which they call “the cardiac passion”, is worse than any other pain known to man except the strangury. Well, I must be thankful, I suppose, that I have never had the strangury. It will be supposed that my ...
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... heard from my sister Livilla, a beautiful girl but cruel, vain and ambitious—in a word a typical Claudian of the bad variety—that my mother had called me “a human portent” and said that when I was born the Sibylline books should have ...
... heard from my sister Livilla, a beautiful girl but cruel, vain and ambitious—in a word a typical Claudian of the bad variety—that my mother had called me “a human portent” and said that when I was born the Sibylline books should have ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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