SINISTER MUSIC plays and a viper slithers across a Roman mosaic. It’s the opening credits of “I, Claudius,” a historical series of the Roman Empire based on the novels by Robert Graves. Uneasy lays ...

Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

In 54 AD, Emperor Claudius - elderly and lame from birth - is writing his biography and the history of his family. He recalls an encounter with the Sibyl, who recognizes him from his stutter and tells ...

Originally the concluding part of the extended broadcast premiere version of Episode 1, it was later split into a separate Episode 2...It is now 9 BC. Livia has poisoned Agrippa and Tiberius is being ...

“I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives ...

As the 1976 adaptation of I, Claudius concludes its run on BBC Four, Ben Lawrence suggests how the new HBO version can repeat its success. It has been announced that US TV network HBO has commissioned ...

I, CLAUDIUS—R.obert Graves—Smith & Haas ($3). “What sort of speech did Caesar make before the Battle of Pharsalia? Did he beg us to remember our wives and children and the sacred temples of Rome and ...