Think big. The Roman empire, for starters. That’s the subject of Robert Graves’s “I, Claudius,” a fictional memoir by the most unlikely emperor of them all. Writing as Claudius ...

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A star-studded cast - including Derek Jacobi as Claudius, John Hurt as Caligula, and Brian Blessed as Augustus - all give five-star performances in this magnificent adaptation of Robert Graves ...