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 ...

You may have seen I, Claudius airing on a local PBS station during a pledge drive.¿ You may have been momentarily interested by a brief flash of nudity or a sword in ...

“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 ...

Livia has engineered the downfall of Julia, who has been banished. Tiberius is recalled to Rome and is joint heir with Postumus. Poor stumbling, stuttering Claudius finds a friend in Herod, king of ...

In 1934, English poet and historian Robert Graves electrified the literary world with his novel I, Claudius, which along with its 1935 sequel Claudius The God told the story of nearly 100 years of the ...

It’s been more than 31/2 politically and culturally eventful decades since the BBC debuted “I, Claudius,” the now iconic political drama set in ancient Rome that shocked and amazed audiences, first in ...

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 ...