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Apr 30, 2024 · Claudius II Gothicus (born May 214, Dardania, Moesia Superior—died 270, Sirmium, Pannonia Inferior) was a Roman emperor in 268–270, whose major achievement was the decisive defeat of the Gothic invaders (hence the name Gothicus) of the Balkans in 269. Claudius was an army officer under the emperor Gallienus from 260 to 268—a period of ...
Claudius’ Tragic Youth. Born in 10 BC to Drusus and Antonia Minor, Emperor Claudius was the grandchild of Mark Antony and Augustus’ sister Octavia on his mother’s side and Livia and her first husband Tiberius Claudius Nero on his father’s side. One might think that being born into such an influential line of the ruling family would have ...
Apr 19, 2011 · I, Claudius, historical novel by Robert Graves set in 1st-century- ce Rome, published in 1934. The book is written as an autobiographical memoir by the Roman emperor Claudius, who is a son of a Roman general, a nephew of the emperor Tiberius, and a great-nephew of the emperor Augustus. Physically weak, afflicted with stammering, and inclined to ...
Jun 17, 2020 · Claudius also took great care in his function as a judge, presiding over the imperial law-court. He instituted judicial reforms, creating in particular legal safeguards for the weak and defenceless. Of the loathed freedmen at Claudius’ court, the most notorious were perhaps Polybius, Narcissus, Pallas, and Felix, the brother of Pallas, who ...
Apr 16, 2018 · Tiberius Claudius Drusus was born in Lugdunum (Lyon) in Gaul on August 1, 10 BC, according to historical sources, as the second son of Drusus who was roman army leader in Germania, and Antonia Minor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Since his birth, his suffering from spastic paralysis and epilepsy, the boy punished by his mother and discriminated ...
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus (Claudius to his embarrassed family), born in Lyon in what is now France, a sickly, lame, twitching, stutterer, a nonentity, thought an idiot by his relatives the most prominent in ancient Rome, Julius Caesar began their more than century long reign as the rulers of the vast expanding Roman Empire.
I, Claudius. I, Claudius is a historical novel by English writer Robert Graves, published in 1934. Written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, it tells the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the early years of the Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar 's assassination in 44 BC to Caligula 's assassination in AD 41.
