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 and associates as “Claudius the Idiot’’, or “That Claudius”, or “Claudius the Stimmerer”, or “Clau-Clau-Claudius” or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius”, am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the “golden predicament” from which I have never since become disentangled.
—The Opening
The novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves, published in 1934 and 1935 follow the history of the Roman Empire, from the latter reign of Emperor Augustus (starting around 24/23 B.C.) to the death of the eponymous character, Claudius, through whose eyes all of the action is seen.
In 1976, the books were adapted into a BBC TV series, I, Claudius, with Derek Jacobi in the title role.
These books provide examples of:
- I, Claudius (Book) - Tropes 0 to C
- I, Claudius (Book) - Tropes D to H
- I, Claudius (Book) - Tropes I to M
- I, Claudius (Book) - Tropes N to P
- I, Claudius (Book) - Tropes R to T
- I, Claudius (Book) - Tropes U to Z
Write no more now, Tiberius Claudius, God of the Britons, I write no more.