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I was very pleasantly surprised by this book. I sort of assumed it would be pretty dry and boring, but apparently I'd never heard of the BBC TV series, because the whole book is like a celebrity gossip mag for the Roman Empire. Once I got over the fact that it was incredibly hard to keep names straight, and remember who was related to who (a family tree might help, although it would be the most compl, I let myself get caught up in all the sordid fictionalized scandal. Robert Graves turns Claudius into a smart, bookish, cripple, who's only desire is to write history the way he sees it as he tries not to be killed off by all his power hungry relatives. Who knows how accurate this version of him really is, but it makes for likeable, although somewhat cowardly, narrator. The story did get repetitive after a while, since it was a lot of killing people by framing them of treason, but it was still much less dry than I had expected. A fun way to read about history, while obviously keeping in mind that it is totally fictionalized.