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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2671500, member: 83956&quot;]I also think Claudius was underrated. Last night I watched a documentary BUILDING AN ANCIENT CITY: ROME. Hosted by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. It was better than expected; a BBC doc. Streams free on Amazon Prime and it&#039;s on YouTube. Wallace-Hadrill talks about Claudius&#039;s building of Portus near Ostia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m afraid Claudius is fixed in our mind as the stammering, timid thing Robert Graves and PBS impressed upon the popular imagination. I suspect he was much more competent than he&#039;s given credit for. AWH talks about Claudius and Portus at minute 34.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]XfwBBB8YOvk[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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