Claudius the God by Robert Graves - ISBN: 9780141188607
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Rome’s reluctant emperor recounts power, paranoia, and scandalous times.

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    448 pages

  • Release Date

    31 August 2006

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Summary

First published individually in Modern Classics, together with I, Claudius.

Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But the growing paranoia of absolute power and the infidelity…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141188607
ISBN-10:014118860X
Author:Robert Graves, Barry Unsworth
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:31 August 2006
Weight:336g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 27mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Robert Graves

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

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