READERS of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius will remember that that book ended with the assassination of Caligula and the election by the army of Claudius as emperor. Claudius the God is not so much a ...

Claudius The God. By Robert Graves. 583 pp. New York: Smith & Haas. $3.00. Many scholars have tried to minimize anti-Semitism in the Roman Empire, feeling that modern anti-Semitism is best stigmatized ...

Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

You may have seen I, Claudius airing on a local PBS station during a pledge drive.¿ You may have been momentarily interested by a brief flash of nudity or a sword in ...

It was one of the defining television dramas of its time and a career-making role for the then relatively unknown Derek Jacobi. Now he is to reprise his role in I, Claudius for a whole new audience.

Naturally, there will be smartypantses making fun of the make-up; the emperors’ hair will probably get a social media following of its own. Yet the re-showing by the BBC of its greatest-ever ...