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Claudius I (10 BC–AD 54)Nephew of Tiberius, and son of Drusus Nero, made Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard in AD 41, after the murder of his nephew Caligula. Claudius was a scholar and historian. During his reign the Roman empire was considerably extended, and in 43 he took part in the invasion of Britain. Claudius was believed to have been weak and easily led by his wives and his senior freedmen, who served as his principal secretaries. Lame, and suffering from a speech impediment, Claudius was frequently the object of ridicule. He wrote historical works and an autobiography, none of which survives. His life is imaginatively reconstructed by the novelist Robert Graves in his books I Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1934).
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But Claudius is not "named a 'villain' or 'villein'"; in G. Jacobi is perhaps best known for his role as Roman emperor Claudius I in the classic 1976 BBC-TV miniseries I, Claudius. Derek Jacobi's Claudius is a supreme study of the connection between evil and weakness, while Julie Christie's Gertrude explores the callousness that can grow out of sexual infatuation. |
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