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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Though I haven't read them in a couple of decades, I have in my collection Robert Graves's I, Claudius and Claudius The God. Much better than the miniseries made from them, and that's saying a lot.
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Read them in high school after PBS ran the miniseries - and again a few times after that. They ARE better and that IS saying a lot, because the miniseries ROCKS.
For better or worse whenever I think of Augustus all I see in my head is Brian Blessed running around yelling "Bring me back my eagles!!" or some such.
And Sian Phillips as Livia... *shudder*