Claudius, we know, really wrote an autobiography, though it was apparently never read by anyone but himself; and it was a clever device of the author to reconstruct it from known sources aided by ...

Told by an elderly Claudius writing a behind-the-scenes history of the Roman government during his lifetime — under Augustus Caesar (Brian Blessed), Tiberius (George Baker), Caligula and finally ...

The one member of his close circle whose life Caligula spared was his uncle Claudius, primarily to make fun of the older man, who was lame and stammered. But “Sleepy Claudius,” particularly as ...

When Caligula pushed Claudius into a river, robes and all, out of anger that the older man took part in a senatorial delegation in Germany, Claudius played dumb to avoid provoking further retaliation.

Upon Caligula’s murder in 41 C.E., Agrippina’s uncle and future husband, Claudius, recalled her from exile.

Robert Graves' classic novels "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God" trace some of the same events comically rendered in Sean Michael Welch's "End Caligula," which seems fair: If we can imagine a ...

After Caligula was assassinated in A.D. 41, Claudius took refuge in the army camps and haggled for two days to convince the Senate to accept him as emperor.

Caligula, Claudius’ nephew, attained the imperial throne at age 24. In order to stress his Julio-Claudian family ties, Caligula appointed Claudius to an honorific post as co-consul in 37 C.E.

Graves imagines a lost autobiography in which Claudius details the story of his family, the Julio-Claudian dynasty that included Rome’s first three emperors: Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula.

Caligula should have been his greatest work on the topic, and now may be. What Negovan’s reconstruction adds is logic. Vidal was undeniably one of the 20th century’s greatest writers.