She also was a stepmother to Claudia Antonia, Claudius ' daughter and only child from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina, and to the young Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, Claudius ' children with Valeria Messalina.

The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 1825 with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of Claudius James Rich.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

They also requested that Claudius be allowed to debate in the Senate.

However, as this was also the period during which the power and terror of the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Sejanus, was at its peak, Claudius chose to downplay this possibility.

Claudius also made a law requiring plaintiffs to remain in the city while their cases were pending, as defendants had previously been required to do.

Claudius also settled disputes in the provinces.

The freedmen could also officially speak for the Emperor, as when Narcissus addressed the troops in Claudius ' stead before the conquest of Britain.

Claudius also presided over many new and original events.

Annual games were also held in honor of his accession, and took place at the Praetorian camp where Claudius had first been proclaimed Emperor.

Claudius also restored and adorned many of the venues around Rome.

They also paint him as bloodthirsty and cruel, overly fond of both gladiatorial combat and executions, and very quick to anger ( though Claudius himself acknowledged the latter trait, and apologized publicly for his temper ).

Claudius also tried to revive the old custom of putting dots between successive words ( Classical Latin was written with no spacing ).

There is also a reference to Claudius ' suppression of one of the coups against him in the movie Gladiator, though the incident is entirely fictional.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

It was also the haunt of notable people such as Claudius Charax the historian, Aelius Aristides the orator, Polemo the sophist, and Cuspius Rufinus the Consul.

While at Athens, he developed a close friendship with his fellow student Basil of Caesarea and also made the acquaintance of Flavius Claudius Julianus, who would later become the emperor known as Julian the Apostate.

He was also honored by the Romans, particularly the emperors Claudius and Tiberius whom had inscriptions that praised Imhotep on the walls of many of their Egyptian temples.

The Julio-Claudian dynasty normally refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula ( also known as Gaius ), Claudius, and Nero, or the family to which they belonged ; they ruled the Roman Empire from its formation, in the second half of the 1st century ( 44 / 31 / 27 ) BC, until AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide.

Claudius was a Claudian through his father, Nero Claudius Drusus, and also possessed a blood connection to the Julian branch of the Imperial Family through his mother, Antonia Minor.

Claudius also suffered tragic setbacks in his personal life.

Claudius ' reign also included several attempts on his life.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.

When the murder scene is presented, Claudius abruptly rises and leaves the room, which Hamlet sees as proof of his uncle's guilt.

The fact that ordinary father-son ( or grandfather-grandson ) succession did not occur has contributed to the image of the Julio-Claudian court presented in Robert Graves's I, Claudius, a dangerous world where scheming family members were all too ready to murder the direct heirs so as to bring themselves, their own immediate families, or their lovers closer to the succession.

In I, Claudius, by 20th-century writer Robert Graves, the Roman Emperor Claudius, until then commonly regarded as inept by historians, is presented in a more sympathetic light.

Other programs presented on the series include The Six Wives of Henry VIII ; Elizabeth R ; I, Claudius ; Upstairs, Downstairs ; The Duchess of Duke Street ; The Citadel ; The Jewel in the Crown ; House of Cards ; Traffik ; and Jeeves and Wooster.

He had previously taken smaller parts in a number of British television dramas, appearing in the acclaimed I, Claudius in 1976 as Gratus, the no-nonsense soldier of Caligula's bodyguard who drew Claudius from his hiding-place in the palace, and presented him as the proper heir to the empire, and also as Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York in the BBC's 1982 productions of Shakespeare's Henry VI plays.

Commissioned and presented by Joseph Strutt ( 1766 – 1844 ) a wealthy industrialist and major local benefactor, the Derby Arboretum was designed by John Claudius Loudon and had a major impact upon the development of urban parks.

An appended text purports to be a written report made by Pontius Pilate to Claudius, containing an anti-Semitic description of the crucifixion, as well as an account of the resurrection of Jesus ; both are presented as if in an official report.

To Neptune and Minerva, for the welfare of the Divine House, by the authority of Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, great king of the Britons, the guild of smiths and those in it gave this temple at their own expense ... ens, son of Pudentinus, presented the forecourt.

They get there in time to see Vitellius and Lavinia being presented to the emperor ; while Claudius is distracted by Lavinia ’ s charms, a supposedly loyal Briton leaps at the emperor with a dagger.

This production, revived in 2007, was described by the New York Times critic as " odd ... presented as broad satire, a Springtime for Hitler version of I, Claudius ", although the musical performances were generally praised.

In February 1955, Theodor Vogel, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodges of Germany, presented the memorial association with intricate wood carvings depicting the Four Crowned Martyrs ( in this case, Claudius, Castorius, Nicostratus, and Symphorian ).

The naumachia of Claudius therefore truly reproduced naval combat.

In 249 BC, following the disastrous naval losses of Publius Claudius Pulcher and Iunius Pullus, Pulcher was fined 120, 000 asses and his colleague committed suicide.

Marcus Claudius Marcellus re-emerged onto both the political and military scene during the Second Punic War, in which he took part in important battles.

These stones mark the boundaries and relative dimensions of the pomerium extension by Claudius.

The attempted coup d ' etat by Silius and Messalina had probably made Claudius realize the weakness of his position as a member of the Claudian but not the Julian family.

In 1937, director Josef von Sternberg attempted a film version of I, Claudius, with Charles Laughton as Claudius.

Her husband, Pompeianus, was not involved, but two men alleged to have been her lovers, Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus ( the consul of 167, who was also her first cousin ) and Appius Claudius Quintianus, attempted to murder Commodus as he entered the theatre.

Robert Graves ' work I, Claudius suggests that, through Livia's influence, Augustus grew to dislike him, and Graves even creates a fictional incident in which Postumus is framed by Livia and her granddaughter Livilla for attempted rape of the latter.

* Marcus Claudius Marcellus, one of the conspirators of Catiline in 63 BC ; on the discovery of the plot, he attempted to instigate an insurrection amongst the Paeligni, but was defeated by the praetor, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, and put to death.

* Gaius Claudius M. f. Marcellus, son of the conspirator, he also took part in Catiline's conspiracy, and attempted to instigate a slave revolt at Capua, but was driven out by Publius Sestius, and took refuge in Bruttium, where he was put to death.