At Augustus ' death, the equites, or knights, chose Claudius to head their delegation.

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.

The powerful Roman Emperors chose Campania as an ideal holiday destination, amongst them Claudius and Tiberius, the latter of whom is infamously linked to the island of Capri.

Agrippina the Younger chose him as Prefect in 51 to secure her son Nero's place as Emperor after the death of Claudius.

When Claudius chose Agrippina the Younger in order to consolidate the Julio-Claudian family, and picked her son, the future Emperor Nero to fill the role of temporary older heir, Narcissus allied with Britannicus ' circle in order to secure his future.

Oost suggests that Claudius had previously looked to adopt one of his sons-in-law to protect his own reign.

Even after the deaths of Gaius and Lucius, and the banishment of Postumus Agrippa, Augustus did not adopt Drusus ' sons, Germanicus and Claudius.

Agrippina, through her plotting and manipulating, ended the engagement between Octavia and Lucius Silanus and persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero as his son and heir and arranged for Octavia and Nero to marry on 9 June 53.

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

Germanicus was the first son born to Antonia Minor and Nero Claudius Drusus.

She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.

His mother was Antonia Minor and his father was the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

Agrippina and Claudius betrothed Nero to Octavia, and Agrippina arranged to have Seneca the Younger return from exile to tutor the future emperor.

For instance, in 51, Agrippina ordered the execution of Britannicus ’ tutor Sosibius because he had confronted her and was outraged by Claudius ’ adoption of Nero and his choice of Nero as successor, instead of choosing his own son Britannicus.

Claudius later repented of marrying Agrippina and adopting Nero, began to favor Britannicus, and started preparing him for the throne.

The ancient sources say she poisoned Claudius on October 13, 54 with a plate of deadly mushrooms at a banquet, thus enabling Nero to quickly take the throne as emperor.

* Suetonius, De vita Caesarum – Claudius v. 44 and Nero vi. 5. 3, 28. 2, 34. 1 – 4

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ), only child of the above Gnaeus Domitius and Aemilia Lepida, paternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero, maternal grandfather of Valeria Messalina ( third wife of the emperor Claudius )

* Gnaeus Domitius Afer, senator, consul, and orator during the reigns of the Emperors Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.

Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BC in Lugdunum to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia on the day of the dedication of the altar to Augustus at the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls.

His paternal grandparents were Livia, Augustus ' third wife, and Tiberius Claudius Nero.

When the Arch of Pavia was erected to honor the Imperial clan in 8, Claudius ' name ( now Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus after his elevation to paterfamilias of Claudii Nerones on the adoption of his brother ) was inscribed on the edge — past the deceased princes, Gaius and Lucius, and Germanicus ' children.

In any case, Claudius accepted Agrippina, and later adopted the newly mature Nero as his son.

Claudius was deified by Nero and the Senate almost immediately.

Claudius ' will had been changed shortly before his death to either recommend Nero and Britannicus jointly or perhaps just Britannicus, who would have been considered an adult man according to Roman law only a few months later.

) executed ( Dio ) because Claudius had commented on her beauty.

Suggesting her marriage to Claudius was to a weak emperor who was, because of his hesitations and terrors, a threat to the imperial authority and government.

His uncle Claudius was spared only because Caligula kept him as a laughing stock.

Jews were expelled from Rome because of Christian disturbances around AD 49 by the edict of Claudius.

# Tiberius was Augustus's stepson, because Tiberius's mother Livia Drusilla married Augustus as her third husband ( Tiberius and Drusus were Livia's only natural children by her first marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero ( praetor 42 BC )).

Julian was summoned to court, and held for a year, under suspicion of treasonable intrigue, first with his brother and then with Claudius Silvanus ; he was cleared, in part because the Empress Eusebia intervened on his behalf, and he was sent to Athens.

They are fleeing Denmark, because their play has offended Claudius.

In 50 BC, the censor Appius Claudius Pulcher removed him from the Senate on the grounds of gross immorality ( probably really because of his opposition to Milo and Cicero ).

* Sulpicius Rufus, procurator of the public games, was slain by the emperor Claudius because he was privy to the marriage of Silius and Messalina.

The irony of the situation is that, unbeknownst to Hamlet, Claudius cannot ask for forgiveness for murdering his brother because he is “ still possessed / Of those effects for which I did the murder ./ My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen ” ( 57-59 ).

Similarly, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, the title character almost kills King Claudius at one point, but resists because Claudius is praying and therefore may go to heaven.

Dio says that this was because the resistance became fiercer as the Britons tried to avenge Togodumnus, and Plautius needed the emperor's help to complete the conquest ; however, as Claudius was no military man and in the end spent only sixteen days in Britain, it is likely the Britons were already as good as beaten.

#: There he ( Paul ) met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome.

Hamlet speaks this on his entry to Act 3 scene 1 ( known as the ' nunnery scene ' because of the Hamlet / Ophelia dialogue after the speech ) which is when Polonius and Claudius put into effect their plan, hatched in Act 2 scene 2, to watch Hamlet with Ophelia to determine whether, as Polonius thinks, his ' madness ' springs from " neglected love ".

In the following year, AD 42, Silanus was put to death by Claudius, apparently because he had resisted the advances of Messalina, who subsequently accused him of plotting to assassinate Claudius.

The Roman Senate would not agree to cease hostilities, mainly because the words of Appius Claudius Caecus whom in 280 BC, after he had gone blind, gave a famous speech against Cineas, declaring that Rome would never surrender.

He was probably a younger contemporary of Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius and lived in the times of Sulla although some scholars believe that he was a contemporary of Julius Caesar and wrote his work after 50 BC, because he seems to have been unknown to Cicero ( who especially does not mention him in his enumeration of famous historians ( de legibus 1. 2. 3-7 )).

He earned the nickname Claudius Maximus because of his brash, ascerbic style of leadership and opinionated, colorful personality.

Long before then, however, we hear of them in a letter of Flavius Claudius Julianus ( Julian the Apostate, because he reverted from Christianity to paganism ) to the Athenians.

Between 41 and 44 CE, Iudaea regained its nominal autonomy, when Herod Agrippa was made King of the Jews by the emperor Claudius, thus in a sense restoring the Herodian Dynasty, though there is no indication Iudaea ceased to be a Roman province simply because it no longer had a prefect.

Although acknowledging Paul's innocence, Claudius Lysias gave the impression that he had rescued Paul because of having learned that the apostle was a Roman, whereas in reality he had violated Paul's citizenship rights by having him bound and even ordering that he be examined under scourgings.