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Download or read book Claudius the God written by Robert Graves and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to I, Claudius, the story of the Roman Emperor—on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based—continues . . . In I, Claudius, Robert Graves began the story of the limping, stammering young man who is suddenly thrust onto the throne after the death of Caligula. In Claudius the God, Graves continues the story, detailing Claudius’s thirteen-year reign and his ultimate downfall. Painting the vivid, tumultuous, and decadent society of ancient Rome with spectacular detail, Graves provides a tale that is instructive, compelling, and difficult to put down for both casual readers and students of Roman history.
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Download or read book Claudius, the God and His Wife Messalina ... written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Graves continues Claudius' story with the epic adulteries of Messalina, King Herod Agrippa's betrayal of his old friend, and the final arrival of that bloodthirsty teenager, Nero.
Download or read book I, Claudius written by Robert Graves and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the really remarkable books of our day”—the story of the Roman emperor on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based (The New York Times). Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control. Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio. “[A] legendary tale of Claudius . . . [A] gem of modern literature.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book Claudius the God written by Robert Graves and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.
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Download or read book Claudius the God, and His Wife Messalina written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Claudius the God written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Claudius, the God and His Wife Messalina written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Claudius, the God and His Wife Messalina written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Claudius Novels written by Robert Graves and published by Penguin Hardcover. This book was released on 2001 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudius the stammerer was known as a buffoon and a fool. but despite his reputation he was destined to become Emperor - and shrewd enough to record some of the most scandalous, debauched times in history. Here, in this magnificent fictionalized autobiography, Claudius chronicles the shocking intrigues, lusts, perversions and bloodshed of the Imperial Roman households, from the great days of Augustus and the cruelty of Tiberius, to the insane excesses of Caligula. As Claudius reveals his innermost thoughts throughout his own surprisingly successful reign and his tempestuous marriage to the depraved Messalina, his voice is humorous, sometimes fearful, always inquisitive, bringing the past to brilliant life in two of the most celebrated and compelling historical novels ever written.
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Download or read book Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I, Claudius written by Robert Graves and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue of the two classic novels set in Ancient Rome.
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Download or read book Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina ... written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Claudius, the God and His Wife Messalina written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continuation of Mr. Graves's I, Claudius, but a complete story in itself and a very curious and moving one. In A.D. 41, on the assassination of his mad nephew Caligula, the learned and retiring Claudius, whom most people regarded as an imbecile, was unexpectedly acclaimed as Emperor by the Imperial Guards. He was a confirmed Republican; his first passionate refusal to reign was not taken seriously, and he gave in, chiefly because he believed that only by his doing so could civil war be avoided. The Senate accepted him, too, when it saw that he had the support of the Army, and he settled down to work at once, doing his best to reconcile his republican convictions with practical patriotism. His methods of government were unconventional because he had almost no administrative experience behind him, and he earned a great deal of ridicule, but got things done somehow.
Download or read book I, Claudius written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Jesus written by Robert Graves and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Both the knowledge of a scholar and the imagination of a poet are brought to bear upon Jesus as child, boy, and man. . . . A bold speculative adventure” (Harold Brighouse, Manchester Guardian). In Robert Graves’s unique retelling, Jesus is very much a mortal and the grandson of King Herod the Great. When his father runs afoul of the king’s temper and is executed, Jesus is raised in the house of Joseph the Carpenter. The kingdom he is heir to, in this version of the story, is very much a terrestrial one: the Kingdom of Judah. Graves tells of Jesus’s rise as a philosopher, scriptural scholar, and charismatic speaker in sharp detail, as well as his arrest and downfall as a victim of pitiless Roman politics. Bringing together his unparalleled narrative skill and in-depth expertise in historical scholarship, renowned classicist and historical novelist Robert Graves brings the story of Jesus Christ to life in a strikingly unorthodox way, making this one of the most hotly contested novels Graves ever wrote—and possibly one of the most controversial ever written. It provides a fascinating new twist to a well-known story, one that fans of this historical period are sure to love. “This is not reading for the easily shocked; it definitely presents Jesus as a sage and a [poet], if not divine. It moves, as does all Mr. Graves’ writing, at a brilliant fast pace, and with a tremendous style.” —Kirkus Reviews
