I, Claudius - Hardcover

Graves, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907360808 ISBN 13: 9781907360800

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2013

Synopsis

The Julio-Claudian family possessed all the brutality and dysfunctionality of the Sopranos, but with fewer (or no) constraints on their power to injure outsiders or each other. From this raw material Robert Graves brilliantly recreates a world of power, intrigue and cruelty, a world permeated through and through with the threat of sudden and violent death. In the process he raises striking, sometimes unanswerable questions: was Tiberius really as depraved as Suetonius suggests? Was Livia the true power behind Augustus' throne? And did she really poison all those people? Did Caligula seriously plan to make his horse a consul? Whether or not we can answer these questions, this was certainly a world in which such things could happen.

With an Afterword by Tom Griffith.

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Review:

* Makes a ripping yarn. The Guardian

Book Description:

First published in 1934, and written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, the audio is read by Derek Jacobi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1907360808
• ISBN 13: 9781907360800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 600