Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Robert Graves's brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, and stands as one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written. (Via http://www.penguin.co.uk ) |...| Set in the first century A.D. in Rome and written as an autobiographical memoir, this colorful story of the life of the Roman emperor Claudius stands as one of the modern classics of historical fiction. Physically weak and afflicted with stuttering, Claudius is initially despised and dismissed as an idiot. Shunted to the background of imperial affairs by his embarrassed royal family, he becomes a scholar and historian, while palace intrigues and murders surround him. Observing these dramas from beyond the public eye, Claudius escapes the cruelties inflicted on the rest of the royal family by its own members and survives to become emperor of Rome in A.D. 41. ROBERT GRAVES was one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. Born in 1895, he fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, an appraisal of the effect of the war on his generation. After the war, he was granted a Classical Scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman Emperor Claudius, and his works on mythology such as The White Goddess. He died in 1986.
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Robert Von Ranke Graves
Robert Von Ranke Graves foi poeta, romancista e crítico inglês. Nasceu em 26 de julho de 1895 em Londres, onde cursou o Colégio Chaterhouse. Combateu na França durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, tendo sido ferido em 1916 na Batalha do Somme. Na mesma época, ainda em serviço ativo, estreou nas letras com dois volumes de poesias em 1916 e um em 1917. Depois do conflito prosseguiu seus estudos na Universidade de Oxford. Publicou em 1929 sua autobiografia "Goodbye to All That", que contituiu grande êxito nas vendas. De 1934 a 1936, viveu na Ilha de Maiorca, onde escreveu seus primeiros romances históricos, "Eu, Claudius, Imperador", que obteve os prêmios Hawthornden e James Tait Black, e "Claudius, o Deus, e Messalina" (1934), a que se seguiram, entre outros: "O Conde Belisário" (1938), "O Sargento Lamb" (1940), "A Esposa de Mr. Milton" (1948), "O Tosão de Ouro" (1944), "O Rei Jesus" (1948). Fonte: wikipédia
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