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Claudius #1 – The Monster
FromLife Of Caesar
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Jul 10, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
The first 50 years of Tiberius Claudius Nero's life was a mixture of wealth, power and cruelty. With symptoms similar to cerebral palsy, the young Claudius was called “a monstrosity of a human being, one that Nature began and never finished" - by his own mother. He was kept out of public life and power by his adoptive grandfather, Augustus, and his successor, Tiberius. He was treated as a fool and a joke by his nephew, Caligula. But after Caligula's assassination, he took power by force, becoming Rome's first true IMPERATOR.
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Released:
Jul 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (77)
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