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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4906383, member: 72790"]Gore Vidal's Julian is an excellent read. It makes one wish Vidal had had a Tacitus or Suetonius to work with. I read it years ago and it left me with a positive view of the emperor that no subsequent study has been able to dispel. I also read Belisarius but while Graves knew how to weave a good story, and the TV series of "I Claudius" was an excellent production and good entertainment Graves never seemed to have moved beyond using the most common sources and seems to me to have lacked the skills to go beyond them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4906383, member: 72790"]Gore Vidal's Julian is an excellent read. It makes one wish Vidal had had a Tacitus or Suetonius to work with. I read it years ago and it left me with a positive view of the emperor that no subsequent study has been able to dispel. I also read Belisarius but while Graves knew how to weave a good story, and the TV series of "I Claudius" was an excellent production and good entertainment Graves never seemed to have moved beyond using the most common sources and seems to me to have lacked the skills to go beyond them.[/QUOTE]
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