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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7928047, member: 110504"]Interesting point, [USER=115909]@Gam3rBlake[/USER]. The irony of Robert Graves is that in the first of his two novels about Claudius (<u>I, Claudius</u> --I never read the other one), he does the opposite, emphasizing his considerable learning and intelligence, and how it was overlooked by the self-absorbed Imperial court, owing to his physical disabilities. ...Had to have added years to his life; when he succeeded Caligula, it was effectively because the more obvious candidates had been knocked off by then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7928047, member: 110504"]Interesting point, [USER=115909]@Gam3rBlake[/USER]. The irony of Robert Graves is that in the first of his two novels about Claudius ([U]I, Claudius[/U] --I never read the other one), he does the opposite, emphasizing his considerable learning and intelligence, and how it was overlooked by the self-absorbed Imperial court, owing to his physical disabilities. ...Had to have added years to his life; when he succeeded Caligula, it was effectively because the more obvious candidates had been knocked off by then.[/QUOTE]
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