When I, Claudius aired in 1976, it redefined historical drama. BBC’s low-budget masterpiece brought the decadence, intrigue, ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

READERS of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius will remember that that book ended with the assassination of Caligula and the election by the army of Claudius as emperor. Claudius the God is not so much a ...

Originally the concluding part of the extended broadcast premiere version of Episode 1, it was later split into a separate Episode 2...It is now 9 BC. Livia has poisoned Agrippa and Tiberius is being ...

He helped bring ‘I, Claudius’ — once a Charles Laughton-Merle Oberon movie that got derailed — and a new adaption of ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ to the small screen. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mark ...

1. Founding a family business for the ages? Think big. The Roman empire, for starters. That’s the subject of Robert Graves’s “I, Claudius,” a fictional memoir by the most unlikely emperor of them all.

One of the funniest works of Roman literature to survive—and the only one that has ever made me laugh out loud—is a skit, written by the philosopher Seneca, about the Emperor Claudius’ adventures on ...

A sphinx found at an ancient Egyptian temple may depict the face of the Roman emperor Claudius, but not everyone agrees with this interpretation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Messalina's sex life got Romans gossiping, but what they really feared was her lust for power. Sex symbolArtworks, such as the Eugene Brunet 1884 sculpture, often emphasize Messalina’s notoriety as a ...