![]() ![]() It takes the form of a fictional autobiography: I, Claudius, as you would expect, is narrated by Claudius, the fourth Roman emperor. It’s probably a good thing, then, that I, Claudius has lingered on my Classics Club list until almost the end – it meant that when I did finally pick it up last month, I was much more receptive to it than I would have been a while ago. ![]() That has slowly begun to change since reading Robert Harris’ excellent Cicero trilogy in 2015 and then Margaret George’s The Confessions of Young Nero earlier this year. The reason I didn’t particularly want to read it was because Ancient Rome was not a setting I found very appealing. It was a book that I felt I should read, due to its status as a work of classic historical fiction, rather than one that I actually wanted to read. When I decided, a few years ago, to include I, Claudius on my list of books to read for the Classics Club I didn’t really expect to enjoy it. ![]()
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