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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8024849, member: 115909&quot;]To be fair most of my assessment of Claudius is based on what I’ve heard and read other historians say about him.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example Adrian Murdoch of the Royal Historical society (and author of <i>Rome’s Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest</i> and <i>The Last Roman</i>, a biography of Romulus Augustulus) says:</p><p><br /></p><p>“This was the Praetorian Guard wanting to do a shift of Emperor in the same way that they had done with Tiberius. I’m sure they would’ve thought:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;“He’s simple. He’ll do exactly what we want him to do.”</p><p><br /></p><p>But it didn’t turn out that way. Claudius was a much cleverer and cannier political operative than anyone gave him credit for.”</p><p><br /></p><p>So for me personally when I read and hear historians like Dr. Irving and Mr. Murdoch say that Claudius was much more competent and intelligent than ancient historians give him credit for I come to the conclusion that Claudius was indeed clever and competent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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