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Claudius the God (Penguin Classics)
by: Robert Graves

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141188607
ISBN: 014118860X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: August 03, 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 23209

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- Fantastic stuff
Coming after the incredibly good novel "I, Claudius", this second part describes the actual reign of Claudius until his death AD54. There may be some controversy about how much is fact and how much is fiction (Graves himself claimed everything is based on ample contemporary and later sources, and he says in the foreword 'few incidents here given are wholly unsupported by historical authority of some sort') but in fact that's besides the point. This is if nothing else a fabulous re-telling of one of the most influential and fascinating periods in Western history.

More importantly, it's also a riveting story with powerful insights into the nature and influence of power, ambition versus decency, etc. etc. so even if you couldn't care ... Read More:

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- My God, nothing at all like the TV Series, and far more boring for it.
I, Claudius was fine. I liked I, Claudius; its mix of soap opera and real history so skillfully ripped from Suetonius's "Life of the Twelve Caesars" makes it a cracking good read. So naturally i was expecting about the same calibre from this.
Trouble is, it turns out to be either a supremely skilled satire, a veiled attack on his (Graves') publishers (he supposedly wrote his miniseries on the stuttering emperor for the money), or just boring.
Typically, you would want the book to start off straight after the events which concluded the last book. It takes a quarter of the book to get to there, the intervening period being filled with a small biography on Claudius's friend Herod Agrippa. An introduction is fine; the biography ... Read More:

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- More diverse than I, Claudius
This is the second volume of Graves' fictional autobiography of the emperor Claudius, and, in some ways, the more interesting for being far less well-known.

Claudius has become emperor against his will, and now recounts the story of his reign: the roman engagement with the middle east in the figure of Herod Agrippa; the second (and successful) invasion of Britain; the re-establishment of some kind of order after the mad predations of Caligula. But all is not well in Claudius' 'happy' marriage to the depraved and decadent Messalina, and, when Claudius discovers the truth about her, he is so disillusioned that he withdraws from active engagement from life and leaves Rome in the hands of his murderous nephew, Nero.

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