I, Claudius
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Claudius and other good/bad Claudians
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Engrossing and entertaining––learning the history of Rome was never this fun. Graves set the modern standard for how historical novels are written, and by which their quality are measured.
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I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “That Claudius,” or “Claudius the Stammerer,” or “Clau-Clau-Claudius” or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the “golden predicament” from which I have never since become disentangled.
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The difficulty in writing historical fiction is that the history must serve the story, not the other way around.
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