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Yeah, I've got I Claudius on the to do list,but I meant Republican Rome. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 20/02/2010 03:13:46 PM
Plus the TV series ROME is excellent, although by necessity somewhat dramatised.

Robert Graves' I, CLAUDIUS and CLAUDIUS THE GOD are reputedly 'the' classical historical Roman novels, although I haven't read them yet. I've seen the BBC adaptation which is superb (and, in the case of the scenes with John Hurt as the Emperor Caligula, very, very sick).


"Rome" is awesome. It's why they invented TV.
Cannoli
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