Claudius the God
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- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2006
Summary
First published individually in Modern Classics, together with I, Claudius.
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But the growing paranoia of absolute power and the infidelity…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188607 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014118860X |
| Author: | Robert Graves, Barry Unsworth |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Robert Graves
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
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