Claudius the God

the troublesome reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born 10 B.C., died A.D. 54), as described by himself, also his murder at the hands of the notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent deification, as describ

Plot

In the sequel to I, Claudius a republican Roman Emperor writes the inside story of his reign. Men classed Claudius as a pitiful fool, but the reign he describes is far from folly. Reluctantly launched into the purple, he emerges as a man who erred on the side of good nature and credibility. It is the common people and the common soldiers who sustain him in his efforts to repair the damage of Caligula's reign, in his relations with the Jewish king, Herod Agrippa, his conquest of Britain, and his final reckoning with his promiscuous wife, Messalina.