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I, Claudius

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Jul 16, 2017tjdickey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Still a classic of historical fiction after decades of the genre. Graves offers a skillful and engaging portrait of the young (and old) Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, existing in a world of political intrigue, murder (four poisonings in his family during Claudius' first decade of life??), madness (Caligula, say no more), and the high life of the Imperial Roman first family. The author even manages to mimic the cadences of Claudius' scholarly Latin, and works in more than enough historical detail and quotations from the literature of the time, without losing any of his own dry British wit and humor.