I, Claudius by Robert GravesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Graves knowledge and love of classic Roman history exudes in this mock autobiography of the limping would-be historian Claudius. The telling reaches back to the poisonings and scheming of Livia, Augustus' third wife and the realization of these manipulations int he fall of Germanicus, the rise of Tiberius and the eventual pathological reign of Caligula before Claudius ascends to the throne in the final paragraphs.
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