Search - I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius

I just could not get into the I, Claudius mini series but the book took me back to a Rome so unpredictable and strange that I doubt if I could have survived. Claudius survives bloody Rome and its mad, vindictive leaders by hiding beneath his limp, stammer and the image his family and acquaintances have cast upon him. The butt of jokes everywhere, he buries himself in nonpolitical historical research and writes books about what he discovers while his friends and family members are murdered and/or exiled. I truly believe that this is a book everyone should take time to read.

one of the best historical novels i've ever read. robert graves is a master with this genre. he slao wrote a follow up book that wasa not as good.
if you keep looking,one day PBS will re-run the series, I,Claudius. it was run in the days before we could tape things, watch it, the acting is terrific.

One of the best historical fictions I have ever read

I read this for a college history class in 1981, and I just re-read it. It's hard to believe that it was written 70 years ago. I wonder if Robert Graves invented the genre of historical fiction.

tiberious claudius, in this fictionalized autobiography, provides insight into both extremes of the ultimate outsider status -- as embarasment to the imperial family, and then as emperor of rome.