Random Thought Table: So I was listening to "I, Claudius"...

[jeriendhal]

...the audiobook of the original novel, not the classic BBC miniseries, which follows Claudius up to his impromptu crowning as Emperor after the assassination of Caligula. Most of which consists of him being repeatedly humiliated by most of his family and generally treated as a stammering idiot despite his skill as a researcher and a scholar

Comments

[mmegaera]

I'd read that.

[colliemommie]

Graves' Livia sees through precocious children as well as she does through everyone else, though. I'd be worried about Rufus and Co.

[jeriendhal]

In this version I don't think she'd be quite as super-humanly calculating and murderous, if only to give the poor kids a chance. :)