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I, Claudius

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I, Claudius	comment	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.
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I, Claudius / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
I, Claudius / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: After Castor's death, Sejanus plans to marry his widow Livilla. Tiberius won't allow it. After her husband's death, Antonia received a marriage proposal from her friend Flaccus, but turned it down.
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I, Claudius / int_10f28611	type	Excessive Mourning
I, Claudius / int_10f28611	comment	Excessive Mourning: After Germanicus' death, the Roman people grieve for months. Tiberius issues a proclaim in which he (diplomatically) tells them to move on with their lives; however, it has little effect.
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I, Claudius / int_11d671f6	type	Stopped Caring
I, Claudius / int_11d671f6	comment	Stopped Caring: Claudius gives this impression after Messalina dies. He makes little effort to reign in Agrippinilla and Nero, actually doing his best to make the latter worse, and doesn't avenge Calpurnia when she's murdered. When his work on the Fucine lake comes crashing down, he finds it hilarious. He actually still cares about the future of the Empire; his plan is to let Agrippinilla and Nero destroy everything he built to make the people realize that monarchy is bad. To be able to bear that, he has to take a stoic attitude to things. As he writes:
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I, Claudius / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
I, Claudius / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: Sejanus seems to become this after Agrippina's downfall. It doesn't last long.
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I, Claudius / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
I, Claudius / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Julius Caesar's is this, since his murder brings his nephew and adoptive son Octavian/Augustus to the center of the political stage.
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I, Claudius / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
I, Claudius / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After Augustus finds out about Julia's debauchery, he locks himself in his bedroom and remains there for four days without eating, drinking or talking to anyone. Claudius has a very similar reaction when they tell him the truth about Messalina. However, he's not allowed to lock himself up and suffer alone, since he has to act immediately to prevent her coup attempt.
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I, Claudius / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
I, Claudius / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: The young Claudius overhears Augustus and Athenodorus talking about him in Greek. When Athenodorus jokingly asks his opinion, Claudius replies in Greek: "My mother Antonia does not pamper me, but she has let me learn Greek from someone who learned it directly from Apollo."
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I, Claudius / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
I, Claudius / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Claudius admits that he's not aiming to write an objective account and is including a good bit of his own personal speculation.
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I, Claudius / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
I, Claudius / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Drusus, Germanicus' second son, is jealous of Nero, his older brother (not to be confused with the future emperor). Averted with Germanicus himself and his first cousin and adoptive brother Castor. Even though there were many reasons for them to be politically opposed, they are on very friendly terms.
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I, Claudius / int_197b546a	type	Scarpia Ultimatum
I, Claudius / int_197b546a	comment	Scarpia Ultimatum: Tiberius' favourite M.O. He forces the wives, daughters and sons of senators to have sex with him, threatening to have their loved ones charged with treason and executed. On one occasion, he sets his eyes on the daughter of a senator; the senator's wife offers herself in her daughter's stead, and after the ordeal, she kills herself.
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I, Claudius / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
I, Claudius / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Drusus and Germanicus treat their troops like this.
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I, Claudius / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
I, Claudius / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Augustus dotes on his only legitimate daughter, Julia.
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I, Claudius / int_1a235210	type	Love-Interest Traitor
I, Claudius / int_1a235210	comment	Love-Interest Traitor: Messalina ends up being this to Claudius, eventually trying to overthrow him and put her lover on the throne.
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I, Claudius / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
I, Claudius / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Claudius' daughter Antonia is implied to be this to her first husband, Pompey, who has male lovers. When Claudius finds out of his son-in-law's sexual orientation, he has him killed and finds Antonia a new husband.
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I, Claudius / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
I, Claudius / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Several characters are sentenced to exile. Some of them get to come back to Rome, like Seneca and Agrippinilla, but most of them die abroad, due to the poor living conditions of the places they are sentenced to inhabit.
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I, Claudius / int_1bf0adc6	type	Did You Think I Can't Feel?
I, Claudius / int_1bf0adc6	comment	Did You Think I Can't Feel?: Claudius, after becoming emperor, says this to the entire Senate, reminding them of how many times they followed Caligula's lead in mocking him.
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I, Claudius / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
I, Claudius / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: A few examples: Tiberius is practically a non-cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter (he even has an MO of starving his victims). He's well versed in astrology, poetry and mythology, in addition to being a polyglot who speaks Latin, Greek, and German. He's also a connoisseur of fine food and wine, and becomes mildly offended when a member of his court composes a poem about mushrooms, titlarks, oysters, thrushes supposedly being the best tasting foods, prompting Tiberius to compose his own poem about how pheasant and rabbit are truly the greatest meals. Livia knows enough history to point out an erroneous reference during a conversation with Claudius (who's a professional historian).
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I, Claudius / int_1da46897	type	Lady Macbeth
I, Claudius / int_1da46897	comment	Lady Macbeth: Livia, wife of Emperor Augustus and the Manipulative Bitch who essentially becomes the Woman Behind The Man by killing all the people that he won't to ensure that her descendants inherit the empire. Clearly one of the bad Claudians.
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I, Claudius / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
I, Claudius / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The book is presented as Claudius' own account of his life. The real Claudius really did write an autobiography, although it is now lost to history.
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I, Claudius / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
I, Claudius / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: One of Caligula's courtiers is flogged to death because he refuses to acknowledge him as a greater god than Zeus.
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I, Claudius / int_1ed05659	type	No Hero to His Valet
I, Claudius / int_1ed05659	comment	No Hero to His Valet: Silas has this type of relationship with Herod Agrippa. It's Played for Laughs at first, but when Herod becomes king and Silas disrespects him in public, he ends up imprisioned and murdered.
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I, Claudius / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
I, Claudius / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Livia's preferred M.O. for removing inconvenient obstacles is to taint their food with a slow-acting poison to bring on what looks like a sudden illness, then continue administering the poison through the victim's doctors in the guise of treatment until they die.
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I, Claudius / int_239ba401	type	Doesn't Trust Those Guys
I, Claudius / int_239ba401	comment	Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Herod Agrippa repeatedly advises Claudius to never trust anybody, and he's absolutely right. Claudius once writes him a letter saying that he has taken Herod's advice and trusts no one — with the exception of several people whose names he lists, Herod among them. All of them, Herod included, prove to be untrustworthy.
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I, Claudius / int_240fee1f	type	Ultimate Final Exam
I, Claudius / int_240fee1f	comment	Ultimate Final Exam: According to Claudius' description of druidism, three candidates out of five don't survive the final tests to become a druid.
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I, Claudius / int_24115bb4	type	Pass Fail
I, Claudius / int_24115bb4	comment	Pass Fail: In Claudius the God, a lawyer who has pled cases in front of Claudius and his predecessors for decades is unmasked as a slave by one of Claudius's friends, who pulls aside the lawyer's toga to expose his brand.
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I, Claudius / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
I, Claudius / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Julia, while being quite promiscuous, is portrayed sympathetically by Claudius. Firstly, because she begins having affairs as a result of her husband Tiberius' coolness towards her and his own infidelities. Secondly, because her enhanced sex-drive seems to have been caused by Livia, who tricks her into using Spanish fly, a potent aphrodisiac. Thirdly, because she has a good heart and is the only adult member of Claudius' family who treats him with affection.
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I, Claudius / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
I, Claudius / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Tiberius. His perversions are not detailed in the book; if Graves had repeated what Suetonius said about him, it probably would've been banned.
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I, Claudius / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
I, Claudius / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Many, many times. Drusillus, Sejanus' children, Gemellus, Caligula's daughter and several other children are murdered.
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I, Claudius / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
I, Claudius / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Livia pretends to be a traditional, virtuous Roman matron, who merely manages her household, takes care of her husband and stays out of politics. In reality, she's a power-hungry Evil Matriarch. Messalina pretends to be a loving wife to Claudius, while being a murderer and an adulteress.
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I, Claudius / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
I, Claudius / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Livia poisoned her husband, grandson, and everyone else who got in her way. She also arranged the death of her son Drusus, who was politically opposed to her (although she claims in the end he actually died of natural causes). Antonia is forced to have her own daughter Livilla killed. She chooses to lock her in a room and starve her to death. The room is next to hers, so she could hear Livilla's cries and curses for days. Claudius explains that Antonia didn't do this out of sadism, "for it was inexpressibly painful to her, but as a punishment to herself for having brought up so abominable a daughter."
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I, Claudius / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
I, Claudius / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: After her parents' divorce, Antonia, Claudius' daughter, is raised by her namesake Antonia, Claudius' mother.
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I, Claudius / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
I, Claudius / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Tiberius' friend, Cocceius Nerva, is described by Claudius as an example: he "never made an enemy and never lost a friend" and he was "sweet-tempered, generous, courageous, utterly truthful and was never known to stoop to the least fraud, even if good promised to come from so doing". Nerva, however, does not protest Tiberius' depravity, because he's just too innocent and absent-minded to notice it.
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I, Claudius / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
I, Claudius / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Cato, Claudius' first tutor.
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I, Claudius / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
I, Claudius / int_2a6bf668	comment	Claudius reveals early on that he had learned of a prophecy that describes his predecessors and himself, and speaks of his successor as horrible, and the last. Claudius interprets this to mean that his successor will be Rome's last Emperor, and that after him, the Republic will be restored, which is why he allows the horrible Nero to be his successor. However, the prophecy actually means (as the audience knows but Claudius doesn't) that Nero will be the last Julio-Claudian Emperor (but will of course have numerous successors).
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I, Claudius / int_2dae4381	type	My Master, Right or Wrong
I, Claudius / int_2dae4381	comment	My Master, Right or Wrong: Cassius Chaerea, the Praetorian Guard officer who eventually forms the plot to assassinate Caligula, is portrayed as one of the bravest and most loyal soldiers in the entire Roman military, and puts up with a tremendous amount of abuse from Caligula; Claudius reflects that the fact a man like Chaerea can be pushed to his limit is a sign of just how depraved, capricious, and dangerous life under Caligula's reign is.
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I, Claudius / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
I, Claudius / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: During Tiberius' reign, a rich man falls in love with a married woman who rejects his advances. Knowing she's a devoted worshiper of the goddess Isis, he manages to bed her by pretending to be the god Anubis. This scandal ends up leading to the banishment of the cult from Rome.
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I, Claudius / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
I, Claudius / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Tiberius rapes and molests both boys and girls. During his trial for treason, the prosecutor claims Valerius Asiaticus is this, accusing him of both molesting a couple of young soldiers, and commiting adultery with a married woman, Poppaea.
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I, Claudius / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
I, Claudius / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Livia is an interesting example. She uses the vilest means to obtain power, but she's also described as a very able and just ruler. Claudius loathes her because many of her victims, such as Postumus and Germanicus, are his dearest friends, but admits her government was much better than Tiberius' and Caligula's. Messalina and Agrippinilla, on the other hand, are straight examples of this.
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I, Claudius / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
I, Claudius / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: When Claudius' son with Messalina is born, he's named Germanicus, in honour of Claudius' deceased brother. Later he's known as Britannicus. Caligula's daughter is named Drusilla, in honour of his sister. Their personalities are very different.
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I, Claudius / int_30849c3e	type	Ruling Couple
I, Claudius / int_30849c3e	comment	Ruling Couple: Augustus and Livia. Germanicus/Agrippina and Sejanus/Livilla have shades of this trope, although they never end up becoming Emperor and Empress. Claudius gives both Messalina and Agrippinilla a high degree of political influence, although neither gets to become as powerful as Livia.
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I, Claudius / int_30cdefe1	type	Reluctant Ruler
I, Claudius / int_30cdefe1	comment	Reluctant Ruler: Claudius is not willing to become emperor, and he only accepts when he's told his wife Messalina and his unborn child will be in danger if he refuses. Tiberius pretends to be this when the Senate offers him the throne after Augustus' death.
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I, Claudius / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
I, Claudius / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: After Julia's exile, Augustus refuses to shave for four days as a sign of grief.
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I, Claudius / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
I, Claudius / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Claudius makes a few mentions of this weird new cult called "the Christians", and is happy to say that he probably won't be troubled by them again.
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I, Claudius / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
I, Claudius / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Apparently, this is how Pompey, Claudius' son-in-law and his male lover die, being killed while having sex.
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I, Claudius / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
I, Claudius / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: Livia's grand plan is to ensure her son Tiberius becomes Augustus's successor by eliminating everyone ahead of him in the succession, one way or another.
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I, Claudius / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
I, Claudius / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: A sealed letter from Tiberius arrives to Rome, and Sejanus is led to believe it contains his appointment for a high office. He goes to a Senate meeting were the letter will be opened and read out loud. But instead of the appointment, the letter orders Sejanus' arrest, and he is seized on the spot by the Praetorian Guard.
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I, Claudius / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
I, Claudius / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Caligula with his sisters and later Agrippinilla with her son Nero. Somewhat averted with Agrippinilla's marriage to Claudius, her paternal uncle. While their union is clearly incestuous, the marriage is merely a political alliance and is never phisically consumated.
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I, Claudius / int_35b090a3	type	Shared Family Quirks
I, Claudius / int_35b090a3	comment	Shared Family Quirks: Claudius claims that fondness for pets is a family trait, citing Augustus' favourite dog, Tiberius' "dragon without wings" (probably a Komodo dragon), Caligula's horse Incitatus, and several others.
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I, Claudius / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
I, Claudius / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: Posthumus is exiled after he is accused of trying to rape Livilla, who was working with Livia to get rid of him.
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I, Claudius / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
I, Claudius / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Claudius greatly admires his father, who died when he was very young.
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I, Claudius / int_39315ffe	type	Stutter Stop
I, Claudius / int_39315ffe	comment	Stutter Stop: The young Claudius occasionally breaks through his stutter at emotionally intense moments. Later, after training himself out of his stutter (but still keeping it in public as part of his Obfuscating Disability) he is able to invoke the trope at will.
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I, Claudius / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
I, Claudius / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: When Claudius's freedman tricks him into signing Messalina's death-warrant, they make sure to offer Messalina a dagger—to take the honourable way out—in the hopes that they won't have to show the warrant to Claudius. Messalina, however, is too much of a coward to kill herself, so she ends up executed. Similarly, when Augustus banishes his daughter Julia for adultery, Julia accepts exile but her maid Phoebe hangs herself in disgrace; Augustus bitterly comments, "I wish to God I had been Phoebe's father."
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I, Claudius / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
I, Claudius / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: When his friend Vitellius remarks on the grandeur of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, Claudius scoffs that the Pyramid is a crass monument to vanity that does nothing useful (despite its size, it's just a mausoleum for a single man); while the Appian Way (a road) might not be as visually impressive, it will last just as long, if not longer, and benefits millions of people.
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I, Claudius / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
I, Claudius / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We are told at the start that Claudius is going to become Emperor. Nonetheless, the description of 60 years of Roman politics and intrigue leading up to this event manages to remain amazing and entertaining.
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I, Claudius / int_3d69ca47	type	AmicablyDivorced
I, Claudius / int_3d69ca47	comment	Amicably Divorced: Played with. Claudius' grandfather isn't angry when he finds out his wife Livia and his friend Augustus have fallen in love, and not only he divorces her, but also attends their wedding ceremony; and while their sons are raised in his house, he allows them to visit their mother every day. Livia, however, is still resentful of her ex-husband, and when she finds out he's trying to give their sons a republican education, she poisons him.
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I, Claudius / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
I, Claudius / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: The Germans in the emperor's guard marry and have children with Roman women and, while claiming to feel nostalgia for their homeland, don't really want to leave Italy.
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I, Claudius / int_3edeeff4	type	Son of a Whore
I, Claudius / int_3edeeff4	comment	Son of a Whore: Calpurnia is not only a prostitute, but the daughter of a prostitute.
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I, Claudius / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
I, Claudius / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: While not exactly brilliant, Claudius is a lot smarter than most people give him credit for.
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I, Claudius / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
I, Claudius / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: Antonia's funeral is only attended by Claudius, Herod Agrippa and a handful more. This is because no one dares to offend Caligula, who drove her to suicide.
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I, Claudius / int_437f9500	type	Empty Nest
I, Claudius / int_437f9500	comment	Empty Nest: Antonia asks Claudius to let her raise his daughter, also named Antonia, probably because all of her other grandchildren were already grown up.
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I, Claudius / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
I, Claudius / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: After his Triumph, Claudius disguises himself as a commoner and walks the streets of Rome to listen to what his subjects really think of him.
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I, Claudius / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
I, Claudius / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Livia justifies all her murders and deceit with claiming that they were necessary for the good of the state. Claudius at the end organizes Nero to be his successor, fully knowing that he'll be the worst ruler imaginable. He does that because he believes that after this, people will finally realize that monarchy is wrong and restore the republic. He writes in his meditations:
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I, Claudius / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
I, Claudius / int_469e3e2f	comment	Messalina's counts as this, at least In-Universe, since she is too afraid to kill herself when told she's been sentenced to death.
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I, Claudius / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
I, Claudius / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Herod Agrippa, whom Claudius describes in Claudius the God as "a scoundrel with a golden heart."
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I, Claudius / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
I, Claudius / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Livia orders the death of her teenage great-grandson to prevent him from marrying the daughter of a political rival. Macro has Sejanus' underaged son and daughter executed (and the girl is raped before her death because it's bad luck to kill a virgin). Caligula orders the death of his young cousin Gemellus. In turn, Caligula's infant daughter is murdered by the same conspirators who killed the Emperor. Messalina tries to murder Nero when he is a child, but the attempt is thwarted.
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I, Claudius / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
I, Claudius / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Invoked; after Caligula comes to power and his lackeys start playing mean pranks on Claudius for their own amusement, his prostitute / mistress / confidante Calpurnia advises him to play up his "pathetic old fool" persona to avoid being seen as a potential obstacle.
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I, Claudius / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
I, Claudius / int_4977d7b8	comment	Body Double: While exiled on an island, Postumus is switched with a similar looking slave named Clement when his grandfather Augustus decides to have him covertly removed under Livia's nose from the island upon receiving evidence that he was falsely accused, and it's the slave who dies when the island is attacked under Livia's orders shortly after Augustus dies. This results in Postumus spending some time disguised as Clementnote In real life, it was the other way around: Clement was an impostor who claimed to be Postumus but was actually a fake.
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I, Claudius / int_4b50895	type	Taking the Kids
I, Claudius / int_4b50895	comment	Taking the Kids: Claudius' grandfather threatens to divorce Livia and take sole custody of their sons Tiberius and Drusus (something Roman law allowed) if she keeps trying to convince him to restore the monarchy.
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I, Claudius / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
I, Claudius / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: A belief held in-universe by Romans, including Claudius himself, who discusses it in Claudius the God. He explicitly states that if a god ceases to be worshipped, he is nothing; he also states that, conversely, being worshipped is what makes one a god. This means that, according to Claudius, if a mortal can make others worship him or her and is worshipped genuinely, then he or she is a god and must be accepted as such.
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I, Claudius / int_4cccd2a9	type	Mad Oracle
I, Claudius / int_4cccd2a9	comment	Mad Oracle: The Sybil.
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I, Claudius / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
I, Claudius / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Claudius at the end knows that Agrippina will soon kill him, and he'll be succeeded by Nero, who will be a horrible ruler. He allowed all of this to happen because he believed that after Nero's tyranny, people will abolish monarchy and restore the republic. People familiar with Roman history know how that turned out, but Graves also tells the reader in an afterword; after Nero's death, a civil war broke out, eventually Vespasian became the emperor and the republic was never restored.
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I, Claudius / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
I, Claudius / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Mentioned by Claudius when he's remembering Julius Caesar's murder.
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I, Claudius / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
I, Claudius / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: After Messalina's downfall, Claudius begins drinking heavily. His freedmen take advantage of it, having Messalina killed when he falls asleep.
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I, Claudius / int_528e8166	type	High Priest
I, Claudius / int_528e8166	comment	High Priest: All emperors are this, since they also hold the office of Pontifex Maximus. Claudius takes advantage of it to introduce some changes in Roman religion.
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I, Claudius / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
I, Claudius / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Features the original Caligula himself in all his violent and depraved "glory," and this is the work that most likely crystallized both his public image and the current pattern of the trope in the minds of modern-day audiences. Notably, while he's certainly cruel, the real feature that stands out about him is that he's capricious about his cruelty; he's just as likely to spare your life but publicly humiliate you as he is to have you simply tortured or executed out of hand if you run afoul of him.
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I, Claudius / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
I, Claudius / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Livia acts like this towards Claudius when she invites him to have dinner. They have a polite and friendly conversation during which she confesses all of her crimes, knowing full well Claudius can't and won't seek vengeance.
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I, Claudius / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
I, Claudius / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Sejanus during most of Tiberius' reign, Macro during the latter part of that reign and the early part of Caligula's.
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I, Claudius / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
I, Claudius / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: After Claudius hears what happened to Sejanus' children (see Loophole Abuse) he says to himself: "Rome, you are ruined; there can be no expiation for a crime so horrible."
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I, Claudius / int_553d8a44	type	King on His Deathbed
I, Claudius / int_553d8a44	comment	King on His Deathbed: Augustus and Tiberius, at the end of their reigns. Caligula is so impatient to become emperor, he has Tiberius smothered with a pillow.
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I, Claudius / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
I, Claudius / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The Roman Empire itself. The Partian Empire also plays a minor role in the story.
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I, Claudius / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
I, Claudius / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: In his last years, Tiberius' bad health forces him to stop drinking, something that puts him in a even fouler mood.
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I, Claudius / int_59b571c	type	Destroy the Abusive Home
I, Claudius / int_59b571c	comment	Destroy the Abusive Home: Caligula had the house on the island of Pandataria where his mother Agrippina was imprisoned and eventually died destroyed when he became emperor, which Claudius notes resulted in a bit of the Streisand Effect since prior to this no one had paid the house any attention, but after seeing the ruins people naturally became curious as to what had occurred there.
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I, Claudius / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
I, Claudius / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: Claudius chooses to become this after the fall of Messalina.
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I, Claudius / int_5aa60027	type	Tell Me About My Father
I, Claudius / int_5aa60027	comment	Tell Me About My Father: In his youth, Claudius speaks to a lot of people who knew his father Drusus, trying to gather enough material to write his biography. One of them hints that Livia was involved in his death; shortly after that, Livia herself stops Claudius from finishing his work, making him suspect she really did kill him.
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I, Claudius / int_5be685d4	type	Successful Sibling Syndrome
I, Claudius / int_5be685d4	comment	Successful Sibling Syndrome: Claudius' brother Germanicus is far more successful and popular than him. Claudius doesn't resent him for that.
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I, Claudius / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
I, Claudius / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: During Tiberius and Caligula's reigns almost every treason trial is this, and the Roman justice system becomes more and more corrupt as time goes by. Claudius tries to change things when he becomes Emperor, but several innocent people are executed during his reing nonetheless.
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I, Claudius / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
I, Claudius / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: Defied in-universe by Claudius himself. As he states at the beginning of Claudius the God, he is worried that he might be "branded by posterity as a clever opportunist who pretended to be a fool, lying low and biding his time until he got wind of a Palace intrigue against his Emperor, and then came boldly forward as a candidate for the succession"; among other reasons, he wrote the history of his life to assure the readers that this was not the case.
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I, Claudius / int_5f2a34e5	type	Drinking Contest
I, Claudius / int_5f2a34e5	comment	Drinking Contest: Flaccus, the Roman governor of Syria, is about to beat Tiberius in a drinking contest, but lets him win.
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I, Claudius / int_5fce7087	type	Safe, Sane, and Consensual
I, Claudius / int_5fce7087	comment	Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Mnester claims he was coerced into having affair with Messalina, and shows the marks of the whip on his back as proof, but Narcissus points out that the scars are not deep enough, meaning they are the result of consensual BDSM. Mnester is then sentenced to death for his adultery with the emperor's wife.
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I, Claudius / int_5ff30573	type	Long Game
I, Claudius / int_5ff30573	comment	Long Game: Claudius writes and buries his memoirs for the specific purpose of having them discovered "nineteen hundred years or near" later, as the Sybil said they would be.
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I, Claudius / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
I, Claudius / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Caligula claims his mother Agrippina was the result of an incestuous affair between Augustus and his daughter Julia. This is almost certainly a lie: Caligula dislikes the fact that his maternal grandfather Agrippa was a man of low birth (despite the fact he went on to become a great war hero), so he wants to erase him from his family tree, and would rather believe himself the product of incest than the grandson of a "lowly" admiral.
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I, Claudius / int_617a1d43	type	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink
I, Claudius / int_617a1d43	comment	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: A hodgepodge of pretty much every half-baked conspiracy theory about the time of the Julio-Claudian Emperors, both then and since.
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I, Claudius / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
I, Claudius / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: The legions under Scribonianus' command decide not to rebel against Claudius. Castor undergoes a minor HFT after Germanicus' death. While he wasn't entirely evil before, afterwards he becomes loyal to Agrippina and her children.
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I, Claudius / int_6272a974	type	Remarrying for Your Kids
I, Claudius / int_6272a974	comment	Remarrying for Your Kids: After Messalina's death, Claudius brings up the subject of his young children Britannicus and Octavia, who have been left without a mother. His friend Vitellius suggests him to remarry for their sake, and when he doesn't reject the idea, his freedmen inmediately start looking for a new prospective wife.
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I, Claudius / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
I, Claudius / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Drusus and Antonia's, Tiberius and Vipsania's, Germanicus and Agrippina's and Cypros and Herod Agrippa's arranged marriages are very happy. However, they are the exception to the rule. Messalina's marriage to Claudius seems to be this, until she shows her true colors.
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I, Claudius / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
I, Claudius / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: At the beginning of Tiberius' reign, several legions in Germany and the Balcans rebel against the new Emperor. Germanicus and Castor are sent to quell the uprising.
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I, Claudius / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
I, Claudius / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Caligula's mood swings make people around him constantly in fear for their lives.
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I, Claudius / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
I, Claudius / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Several villains have at least one person they care about. Tiberius loves his brother Drusus, his first wife Vispania, and is fond of his friends Thrasyllus and Nerva. He also had a genuinely cordial relationship with Augustus, until he forced him to divorce Vipsania. Caligula loves his wife Caesonia, his daughter, and his sister Drusilla (although he's heavily implied to have killed her in a fit of rage). Messalina and her mother Domitia Lepida become estranged, but when Messalina's crimes are discovered and she's arrested, her mother is the only one who comes to see her and is at her side until the end. Livia implies she was truly fond of her father. The fact that he was executed by Augustus is the main reason she doesn't feel guilty for having murdered him and several of his descendants. There's also her friendship with Urgulania.
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I, Claudius / int_653bb6cf	type	Last-Minute Reprieve
I, Claudius / int_653bb6cf	comment	Last-Minute Reprieve: Averted. When Tiberius dies, several people have been sentenced to death by him. They hope the new emperor Caligula might pardon them, but they can't reach to him in time and end up executed.
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I, Claudius / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
I, Claudius / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Martina is murdered so that she cannot testify against Piso and Plancina in the trial for Germanicus' murder.
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I, Claudius / int_6635b91e	type	Restrained Revenge
I, Claudius / int_6635b91e	comment	Restrained Revenge: When Claudius becomes emperor, he finds the records of the trial of Agrippina:his sister-in-law Agrippina and his nephews Nero and Drusus, in which the names of those who testified against them are written. Instead of having them killed or exiled, Claudius summons the witnesses to palace, has them read their false testimonies and then burn them with their own hands.
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I, Claudius / int_6787588e	type	The Pardon
I, Claudius / int_6787588e	comment	The Pardon: Caligula pardons Herod Agrippa, who had been imprisoned for treason by Tiberius. Later Claudius pardons his nieces Agrippinilla and Lesbia, allowing them to return from exile. Seneca is pardoned by Claudius not once but twice: first, when he becomes emperor, and recalls several people sentenced to exile by Caligula. Shortly after, Claudius discovers Seneca is committing adultery with his niece Lesbia and exiles him again. Years later, he decides to recall him from exile to make him Nero's tutor.
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I, Claudius / int_67c0ef1a	type	Hidden Backup Prince
I, Claudius / int_67c0ef1a	comment	Hidden Backup Prince: That's what Claudius plans to do with Britannicus during Nero's reign.
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I, Claudius / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
I, Claudius / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: Tiberius is this towards practically all of his brother's descendants. He has a hand in the deaths of his nephew Germanicus, his niece Livilla, his niece-in-law Agrippina, and his great-nephews Nero and Drusus; he's also quite malevolent towards Claudius, although he never threatens his life. Fittingly, he's killed by his surviving great-nephew, Caligula.
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I, Claudius / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
I, Claudius / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: Robert Graves' premise was that he had really discovered the memoirs of the historical Emperor Claudius, "nineteen hundred years or near" later i.e. in the present.
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I, Claudius / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
I, Claudius / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Or Pompous Sycophant Has A Point. A translation of Seneca the Younger's The Pumpkinication of Claudius is included in the epilogue. While Seneca spends a lot of time mocking Claudius' disabilities and praising Nero shamelessly, he also skewers Claudius on his genuine faults.
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I, Claudius / int_6c0e5342	type	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
I, Claudius / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Claudius' dinner with Livia has shades of this, although Claudius isn't Livia's prisoner.
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I, Claudius / int_6c8ce91f	type	Insult to Rocks
I, Claudius / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: Claudius' mother, Antonia, manages to make this one do double duty, by finding something a moment later that she thinks is a sufficiently insulting comparison.
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I, Claudius / int_6d00503a	type	Rain Dance
I, Claudius / int_6d00503a	comment	Rain Dance: In Claudius the God, a Roman commander whose troops are lost in the desert follows his native guide's advice to invoke the local rain god. It works.
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I, Claudius / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
I, Claudius / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Probably the main cause of death in the series. Many characters choose to kill themselves when they are accused of treason, knowing full well they'll be convicted and their properties will be seized by the State. By commiting suicide, they make sure their families are spared. There are also some cases when characters kill themselves out of genuine grief and deseparation, such as Antonia's death in the first book and Cypros' in the second.
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I, Claudius / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
I, Claudius / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Postumus is claimed to be doing this when he tries to organize an uprising against Tiberius.
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I, Claudius / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
I, Claudius / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: Athenodorus, Claudus's tutor only used the latter's full name when he wanted to shame him; then he would say "Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, remember who you are and what you are doing."
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I, Claudius / int_6dc502d1	type	Big Brother Worship
I, Claudius / int_6dc502d1	comment	Big Brother Worship: Claudius adores his older brother Germanicus (as does almost everyone else).
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I, Claudius / int_6e23669f	type	Antagonistic Offspring
I, Claudius / int_6e23669f	comment	Antagonistic Offspring: Tiberius comes to see his son Castor as this, due to Sejanus' manipulation and Castor's own rash behaviour. Because of that, Tiberius shows no grief when Castor dies.
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I, Claudius / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
I, Claudius / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: Thoroughly averted. Almost every character ends up betraying and/or killing a family member. Even Claudius has two of his nieces put to death for conspiring against him.
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I, Claudius / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
I, Claudius / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Calpurnia, who was Claudius' partner for a while, and his friend for the rest of her life. Claudius expressed this in the epitaph he wrote for her:
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I, Claudius / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
I, Claudius / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Herod Agrippa gets a brief mention at the very end of I, Claudius, where he saves the audience of the Palatine Hill theatre from Caligula's German guards after the latter's death, and becomes one of the main characters in Claudius the God, where it is revealed that he was in fact present during many of the events of I, Claudius but was not mentioned there. Claudius lampshades this in the introduction to Claudius the God, and handwaves this by stating that Herod ultimately wasn't that important character in the story until the death of Caligula.
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I, Claudius / int_7a54c458	type	Mock Millionaire
I, Claudius / int_7a54c458	comment	Mock Millionaire: One of the ways in which Herod manages to constantly get loans is to pretend to be wealthier than he really is; he knows that people will be more willing to lend him money if they thinks he's rich enought to pay them back.
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I, Claudius / int_7a570c0	type	The Good Chancellor
I, Claudius / int_7a570c0	comment	The Good Chancellor: Agrippa and Maecenas during Augustus' reign, Narcissus and —for a few months— Herod Agrippa during Claudius'.
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I, Claudius / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
I, Claudius / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Macro, who is the commander of the Praetorian Guard and whose job is to protect Tiberius, ends up smothering him with a pillow. Later, several other praetorians conspire succesfully to assassinate Caligula. During Claudius' reign, many officers in the Guard are involved in plots against the emperor's life.
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I, Claudius / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
I, Claudius / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: Herod Agrippa's last letter to Claudius, written while he is in his deathbed, asures him that, in spite of having conspired against him, he still loved him dearly. It Makes Sense in Context.
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I, Claudius / int_7e043a42	type	Suicide Is Painless
I, Claudius / int_7e043a42	comment	Suicide Is Painless: Cocceius Nerva decides that he had lived enough, so he simply stops eating and eventually dies.
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I, Claudius / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
I, Claudius / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: This is what Claudius is forced to write during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. His 3 works of the time are a history of Augustus' religious reforms, in which he carefully avoids to point out some mistaked made by the emperor's advisors on the matter, and two books about the history of Carthage and Etruria, both of them being uncontroversial topics by the time he wrote them. Nevertheless, he is quite proud of his works. He also claims his official autobiography, written after he becomes emperor, is this. He can't legally criticize Augustus and Livia because they have been deified, and he considers it would be unfair to criticize Tiberius and Caligula while not pointing out the faults of their predecessors.
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I, Claudius / int_7f115959	type	Mother Makes You King
I, Claudius / int_7f115959	comment	Mother Makes You King: Tiberius only becomes Emperor because his mother Livia has been very active in removing any inconvenient competitors for the succession that might stand in his way. And Agrippinilla clearly has the same designs in mind for her son Nero at the end of the story.
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I, Claudius / int_7f6a0b31	type	All Jews Are Ashkenazi
I, Claudius / int_7f6a0b31	comment	All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Averted, since the story takes place some decades before the First Jewish–Roman War and the Diaspora.
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I, Claudius / int_80a7d3e2	type	Convicted by Public Opinion
I, Claudius / int_80a7d3e2	comment	Convicted by Public Opinion: Played straight with Piso and his wife Plancina, who are (correctly) blamed by the Roman people for Germanicus' death. Inverted with Agrippina and her children, who are condemned for treason in spite of the people's support.
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I, Claudius / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
I, Claudius / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: The wife of a senator who was submitted to a Scarpia Ultimatum by Tiberius sees herself as this after giving in, and takes her own life.
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I, Claudius / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
I, Claudius / int_81ae2774	comment	Livia poisoned her husband, grandson, and everyone else who got in her way. She also arranged the death of her son Drusus, who was politically opposed to her (although she claims in the end he actually died of natural causes).
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I, Claudius / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
I, Claudius / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: Antonia and several other Roman ladies.
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I, Claudius / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
I, Claudius / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: Caligula often assumes the identity of different goddesses, and thus wears female dresses.
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I, Claudius / int_873d4ca	type	Prematurely Bald
I, Claudius / int_873d4ca	comment	Prematurely Bald: Caligula loses his hair in his 20s. His grandmother Julia, Augustus' daughter, also goes bald when she's only a teenager, although Claudius speculates it might have been Livia's doing.
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I, Claudius / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
I, Claudius / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Livia manages to have a relatively good public image during Augustus' reign, although she's correctly blamed for many of her evil deeds. Later Caligula becomes this, during the first months of his reign.
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I, Claudius / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
I, Claudius / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Antonia favors Germanicus and Livilla over Claudius. Later she comes to regret it, and considers their deaths a divine punishment for her mistreatment of Claudius. Antonia (Claudius' eldest daughter) thinks he loves Britannicus and Octavia more than her, because she's the daughter of Claudius' second, loveless marriage, and they are the children of Messalina, who Claudius is very much in love with. Claudius manages to convince her she's wrong.
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I, Claudius / int_88e11e1f	type	Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
I, Claudius / int_88e11e1f	comment	Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: Early on, we see two Sibylline prophecies that hint of Claudius's rule. Both prophecies rhyme, though that wasn't a typical feature of Greek or Latin poetry (or prophecy). Arguably it's Translation Convention, translating Greek verse (which was based on patterns of long and short syllables) into an equivalent English poetic form (based on stressed syllables and rhyme).
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I, Claudius / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
I, Claudius / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: A version of Jesus Christ's life is told by Herod Agrippa in a letter to Claudius. Herod considers Jesus to have been a fraud and persecutes his followers, so his view of Jesus's story is somewhat unreliable.
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I, Claudius / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
I, Claudius / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Julius Caesar, Octavia, Mark Antony, Claudius' paternal grandfather, and many others have a lot of bearing in the plot but are dead by the time the protagonist is born. His father Drusus also counts as this, since he dies when Claudius is only a baby.
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I, Claudius / int_8c431f2a	type	Band of Brothels
I, Claudius / int_8c431f2a	comment	Band of Brothels: The Roman prostitutes have their own union, and during Claudius' reign they sue one of their clients for mistreating some of the working girls.
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I, Claudius / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
I, Claudius / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: When Caligula falls ill, many citizens and senators pray for his recovery. One, Lentulus, tells Macro that he's offered his own life to the gods if they'll spare Caligula's, either out of honest devotion or (more likely) trying to outdo the others in sycophancy. When Caligula recovers, he thanks Lentulus for going the extra mile for him... then cheerfully reminds him that he should not wait much longer before killing himself, since "we can't both be here", and the last thing Lentulus wants to do is go back on a deal he made with the gods. Caligula breezes off to take a walk with Drusilla, leaving Lentulus frozen in place with a My God, What Have I Done? expression.
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I, Claudius / int_8d522951	type	Self-Imposed Exile
I, Claudius / int_8d522951	comment	Self-Imposed Exile: In two separate instances (about ten years apart), both Marcus Agrippa and Tiberius voluntarily ask for, and receive, permission to leave Rome to reduce tensions between rival factions supporting other potential heirs of Augustus (Marcellus in Agrippa's case, Lucius Agrippa Caesar and his brother Gaius in Tiberius's). Tiberius also wanted to get away from his wife Julia (the daughter of Augustus, whom he'd married for political reasons but whom he hated; in the television series, it is presented as the main reason for the exile, and that it wasn't voluntary).
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I, Claudius / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
I, Claudius / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Britannicus, Claudius' son, is very similar both in looks and personality to Germanicus, Claudius' brother. For a time that leads Claudius to suspect that Caligula, Germanicus' son, was Britannicus' real father. Nero, who is undoubtily Germanicus' grandson, also looks a lot like him, and the contrast between his handsome appearance and his corrupt personality greatly upsets Claudius.
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I, Claudius / int_8e3f54c	type	Spare to the Throne
I, Claudius / int_8e3f54c	comment	Spare to the Throne: Claudius is very far down the Imperial line of succession. No one expects him to really amount to anything.
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I, Claudius / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
I, Claudius / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: It's hard to feel sorry when characters like Piso, Plancina, Sejanus, Livilla, Tiberius, Macro or Caligula end up getting killed. Most of the victims of Herod Agrippa's scams are described as this.
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I, Claudius / int_8f6b2792	type	Chubby Chaser
I, Claudius / int_8f6b2792	comment	Chubby Chaser: Claudius describes Vinicianus as "one of those little rat-like men who have the same love for women of abundant charms as rats have for large pumpkins".
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I, Claudius / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
I, Claudius / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Almost every marriage in the imperial family is between cousins: Julia and Marcellus, Agrippina and Germanicus, Castor and Livilla, Nero and Helen, Claudius and Messalina, etc.
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I, Claudius / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
I, Claudius / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Livia poisons Agrippa when he is no longer needed to ensure the stability of Augustus' rule.
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I, Claudius / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
I, Claudius / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Germanicus uses this to put down the mutiny of his troops on the Rhine.
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I, Claudius / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
I, Claudius / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Messalina tries to seduce her stepfather, Appius Silanus. When Appius refuses, she threatens to have him executed by Claudius. Instead of giving in and sleeping with her, or keep refusing and end up possibly accused of treason by Messalina, he decides to assassinate Claudius (and fails).
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I, Claudius / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
I, Claudius / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: It happens to several characters, but the one who takes it hardest is Antonia, Claudius' mother, whose elder son Germanicus and only daughter Livilla both die before her (in Livilla's case, starved to death by Antonia herself as punishment for her crimes). Several of Antonia's grandchildren are also dead by the time she passes away.
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I, Claudius / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
I, Claudius / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Played with. Claudius himself and many other characters belong to the Roman nobility and are very decent people. On the other hand we have Macro, who is a man of very humble birth (the son of a slave) and is completely ruthless and amoral. Many other noble character play it straight.
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I, Claudius / int_9620c3a1	type	God-Emperor
I, Claudius / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: Caligula claims to be a god after he goes mad.
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I, Claudius / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
I, Claudius / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Invoked twice. First, when Claudius has dinner with Livia, he drinks too many cups of wine and speaks to her with brutal honesty. She's actually pleased, and mentions this trope by name. Later, when Claudius becomes emperor, he and Herod Agrippa get drunk together. Herod advises him not to trust anyone, including himself. In the end, Herod betrays Claudius, trying of organize an uprising against Rome.
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I, Claudius / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
I, Claudius / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Arguably, Livia is this during the first half of I, Claudius. Later it becomes clear that there are way worst people than her in power and that evil is Inherent in the System.
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I, Claudius / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
I, Claudius / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: This trope is invoked and defied by Claudius, who sentences several women involved in conspiracies against him to death, saying there's no reason why their gender should protect them.
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I, Claudius / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
I, Claudius / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Claudius discusses how, in its long history, there have been two types of people in his family: those who are exceptionally wise and just, and those who are vile, decadent cutthroats.
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I, Claudius / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
I, Claudius / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: Claudius' stammer, which is caused mostly by stress. When he becomes emperor, it almost disappears.
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I, Claudius / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
I, Claudius / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Several cases. Brutus, Julius Caesar's murdered, is claimed to be his biological son. Urgulanilla, Claudius' first wife, is believed to be Tiberius' daughter. Livia says Julia isn't really Augustus' daughter, although this is probably false. Gemellus, Castor and Livilla's son and Tiberius' grandson, is revealed to actually be the child of Livilla's lover, Sejanus. After Claudius finds out how many times Messalina cheated on him, he starts doubting whether he's the real father of their kids. He comes to the conclusion that Britannicus is his child, but Octavia isn't.
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I, Claudius / int_98ff7254	type	Long-Haired Pretty Boy
I, Claudius / int_98ff7254	comment	Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Nero is disdainfully described like this by Claudius.
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I, Claudius / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
I, Claudius / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Herod Agrippa manages to scam several people during his youth.
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I, Claudius / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
I, Claudius / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: I, Claudius has a scene where Tiberius takes a break from depravities and ordering executions to compose a verse-dialogue between the hare and the pheasant, in which they argue which one of them makes for a better meal. Unfortunately, he is then surprised by a fisherman who decided to visit him on Capri and present him a large barbel he had caught; Tiberius has the poor man brutally maimed and then killed, due to a misunderstanding. Livia had given him a false warning to beware of barbel, knowing that it was a favorite dish of his, in order to both feed his paranoia and torment him with the idea that his favorite foods might be tainted. When the hapless fisherman appeared, fish in hand, to offer it to Tiberius, the emperor thought it was an assassination attempt and ordered his guards to protect him from an assailant.
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I, Claudius / int_9c696d3a	type	Evil Nephew
I, Claudius / int_9c696d3a	comment	Evil Nephew: Caligula is this towards Claudius. His sisters Lesbia and Agrippinilla also treat him with contempt.
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I, Claudius / int_9d49c512	type	Please Shoot the Messenger
I, Claudius / int_9d49c512	comment	Please Shoot the Messenger: Caligula, in a non-fatal version, punishes someone who's annoyed him by sending him with a letter to the King of Morocco. The letter says, "Kindly send bearer back to Rome."
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I, Claudius / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
I, Claudius / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Many, many characters aim for the imperial throne, and end up getting killed. Unfortunately, many others who have no such ambitions also lose their lives in the endless struggle for power.
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I, Claudius / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
I, Claudius / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Claudius at one point discusses his distaste for how other men of the noble class take young men as lovers who are blatantly Gold Diggers. While this may come off as an Writer on Board by Graves, this is actually based on fact, as Claudius was one of the few Emperors who never had any male lovers, which was considered odd at the time and remarked upon by contemporaries.
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I, Claudius / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
I, Claudius / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Averted. Tiberius loathes his mother Livia, and the only reason he probably doesn't have her killed is because he also fears her, since she still has a lot of spies and political influence. Caligula befriends Tiberius after he has sentenced his mother Agrippina to prison, and never attemps to persuade him to release her or to improve the conditions of her imprisonment. But Nero goes even farther, ordering the death of his mother Agrippinilla.
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I, Claudius / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
I, Claudius / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: While Claudius is perfectly aware of his three predecessors' crimes and mistakes, he decides not to mention them in his official autobiography. He also declines to take any action against Caligula's memory, such as declaring the day of his death a national holiday.
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I, Claudius / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
I, Claudius / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Antonia, Claudius' mother, realizes she's been an awful parent shortly before commiting suicide, when it's too late to change things between them. Even after admitting this to Claudius, she keeps nagging him. Claudius has a major one after Messalina's downfall, when he realizes that his competent rule has strenghtened the imperial monarchy, making it impossible to restore the Republic.
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I, Claudius / int_a2cc787	type	Externally Validated Prophecy
I, Claudius / int_a2cc787	comment	Externally Validated Prophecy: While conversing with Vitellius, Claudius is unsettled when an owl lands on a nearby temple; that particular species of owl is known as an "incendiary", because its appearance is an omen that whatever building it lands on will be destroyed by fire.
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I, Claudius / int_a2e96d18	type	Just the First Citizen
I, Claudius / int_a2e96d18	comment	Just the First Citizen: Augustus, who was the Trope Namer in real life.
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I, Claudius / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
I, Claudius / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Sejanus and Macro during Tiberius and Caligula's reigns. To a lesser extent, Pallas during Claudius'.
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I, Claudius / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
I, Claudius / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Agrippinilla acts this way toward her son Nero, allowing him to be raised by his aunt and her lovers. Claudius forces her to finish raising him herself.
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I, Claudius / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
I, Claudius / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Tiberius' death is not mourned but celebrated in Rome, where he was very unpopular.
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I, Claudius / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
I, Claudius / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Caligula's daughter, Julia Drusilla, is a savage little monster who kicks and tears at people with her nails and wishes she could kill her mother. She's also barely two years old. Caligula himself, when he was a child.
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I, Claudius / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
I, Claudius / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Averted with Claudius. Although some are nice to him, none of his nieces and nephews take him seriously.
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I, Claudius / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
I, Claudius / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Many of the characters are only known by their nicknames (for example, "Caligula" and "Castor"). Roman naming customs were very unimaginative, so several people might have identical or almost-identical names; nicknames made it much easier than trying to figure out which of the eight or nine "Drusus"es someone might be talking about. The narrator will usually mention the real name before telling you that that guy will just be known as "Castor" from then on.
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I, Claudius / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
I, Claudius / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Livia, Julia, Agrippina and several other women from the imperial family. This is due to the fact that Roman noble women were married at a very young age.
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I, Claudius / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
I, Claudius / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Yes and no. Most everything in the books, including the really outrageous stuff like Livia poisoning half her family or Messalina having a sexathon, comes from ancient sources. However, modern scholars consider much of that to be ancient rumormongering and/or propaganda. Graves also wasn't above using fiction as a platform for historical theories he thought were likely but was unable to prove.
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I, Claudius / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
I, Claudius / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Antonia, who is a very traditional and virtuous Roman matron, is fond of Lovable Rogue Herod Agrippa, and greatly enjoys listening to his stories. She even lends him money from time to time. Up to a certain point, Herod's friendship with Claudius is this.
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I, Claudius / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
I, Claudius / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability/Obfuscating Stupidity:
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I, Claudius / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
I, Claudius / int_aa55cd25	comment	Brawn Hilda: Claudius describes his first wife, Urgulanilla, as one of these: huge, surly, muscular, and (in his opinion) capable of murder if provoked.
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I, Claudius / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
I, Claudius / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Claudius has slaves, enjoys gladiator fights and approves of Germanicus slaughtering civilians during the war in Germania. Also, as an emperor, he has a lot of people executed.
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I, Claudius / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
I, Claudius / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Parodied in I, Claudius, where Claudius meets historians Livy and Pollio. Pollio criticizes Livy for writing that generals gave rousing speeches before battles, and tells that Julius Caesar before the decisive battle with Pompey (where Pollio was present) didn't do anything of the sort; instead, he did funny skits involving a radish. In Claudius the God, Claudius prepares a grand speech in Livy's style before an important battle in Britain; when he finds himself in front of the troops, he forgets it entirely, and comes up with a much more easygoing, jocular speech (without a radish though).
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I, Claudius / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
I, Claudius / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: Claudius witnesses practically every member of his family being murdered due to political intrigues and infighting.
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I, Claudius / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
I, Claudius / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Claudius is informed some of his soldiers want to wreak havoc in Rome after his Triumph, just like they had done after Caligula's. Instead of confronting them and risking bloodshed, he gives them drugged wine with the instructions to drink it only after the parade. The soldiers end up sleeping for hours, waking up only after the Triumph celebrations are over, and Claudius manages to avoid trouble.
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I, Claudius / int_ad0439be	type	The Gambler
I, Claudius / int_ad0439be	comment	The Gambler: Claudius gambles frequently, both at playing dice and in the horsetracks. He never seems to win or loose much, but on one occasion he has to send Germanicus a large sum of money and, since he has to keep it a secret, pretends to have lost it gambling.
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I, Claudius / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
I, Claudius / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: How Claudius becomes emperor: Caligula is murdered, and there is no other male adult member of the imperial family in Rome, so they proclaim him emperor.
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I, Claudius / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
I, Claudius / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: Augustus was apparently incapable of sustaining an erection with Livia, something she uses to her advantage.
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I, Claudius / int_ad806839	type	Sexual Extortion
I, Claudius / int_ad806839	comment	Sexual Extortion: One of Caligula's more nefarious hobbies is forcing himself upon other men's wives and daughters by threatening to have their husbands and fathers executed if they don't submit. Messalina tries to pull this off with Appius Silanus, but it doesn't work.
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I, Claudius / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
I, Claudius / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Several cases. Livia manages to put her son Tiberius on the throne, but he loathes her, and eventually strips her of almost all political influence. Sejanus and Livilla achieve their goal of getting rid of Agrippina and her children, but after years of fueling Tiberius' paranoia, the emperor is quick to realise Sejanus has grown too powerful (and therefore, dangerous), and after a timely warning from Antonia, has him killed. Macro helps Caligula get the throne by murdering Tiberius. Not long after he becomes emperor, Caligula goes mad and puts Macro to death. Agripinilla gets to see her son Nero become emperor. A few years later, Nero orders her death.
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I, Claudius / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
I, Claudius / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: Several characters choose to die this way.
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I, Claudius / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
I, Claudius / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Livia is a textbook example of this in her treatment of Julia (Augustus' daughter from a previous marriage). Tiberius, who marries Julia, is very antagonistic towards her children from a previous marriage.
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I, Claudius / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
I, Claudius / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: Subverted. While the emperors frequently offer lavish public entertainments and free food to keep the people quiet, we see several politically motivated riots (for instance, when it seems Piso will not be punished for Germanicus' death, when Agrippina and her children are forced into exile, and when the vastly unpopular Tiberius' body is brought to Rome to receive a public funeral).
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I, Claudius / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
I, Claudius / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Claudius' mother Antonia was disgusted by him because of his disabilities, and always considered him to be an idiot. Even when she decides to kill herself and says goodbye to Claudius, she still doesn't have a kind word for him. Livia is very abusive towards her stepdaughter Julia.
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I, Claudius / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
I, Claudius / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: When Sejanus and his supporters are being eliminated, guards are sent to kill his young children as well. They're understandably reluctant to do so and one of them even protests that the daughter is underage and a virgin; executing a virgin is unprecedented and could bring bad luck on the city. Macro's solution? Rape her, then kill her. Her brother is also underage, but they dress him up in his coming of age robes so he's legally a man - then they kill him too. As is the case with most of the stuff in these books, sadly Truth in Television.
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I, Claudius / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
I, Claudius / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: The early Roman Empire is depicted this way, albeit with the murders carried out by proxy rather than in person. Livia, after killing everyone higher up the line of succession, poisons Augustus so Tiberius can succeed him; Caligula succeeds by having Tiberius smothered; and at the end Agrippina poisons Claudius to clear the way for Nero. The only Emperor who doesn't succeed this way is Claudius himself, who had nothing to do with Caligula's murder. (Historically, it's doubtful if Augustus and Tiberius were murdered, though Claudius probably was.) Macro becomes commander of the Praetorian Guard after having his predecessor, Sejanus, executed.
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I, Claudius / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
I, Claudius / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Claudius and Agrippinilla. Since he only married her for political reasons and actually loathes her, he tells her right away that there won't be any intimacy between them. Agrippinilla doesn't mind. Claudius' second marriage to Elia, Sejanus' sister, remains unconsummated for several years, until she realizes Sejanus' political position is becoming less secure and allows Claudius to impregnate her; she believes, correctly, that being the mother of Tiberius' nephew's child will protect her if Sejanus falls. After a few years of normal married life, Messalina manipulates Claudius into allowing her to sleep in a separate bedroom and stop having sex altogether, convincing her she's asexual. It's all a lie: she just wants freedom to take as many lovers as she wants. Claudius also alleges that Augustus and Livia were this, with Augustus being impotent when he wanted to be intimate with Livia out of guilt that he had in effect stolen her from her first husband (which in reality was Livia's idea). To compensate Livia covertly gives him young women to satisfy him instead.
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I, Claudius / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
I, Claudius / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Claudius is told by Thrasyllus exactly how long his life will be, down to the months and days he has left.
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I, Claudius / int_b4b2a42a	type	Widowed at the Wedding
I, Claudius / int_b4b2a42a	comment	Widowed at the Wedding: Camilla's death counts as this, although she dies just before her bethrotal ceremony, instead of the wedding itself. Silius and Messalina are both killed (separately) on their wedding day.
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I, Claudius / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
I, Claudius / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: Many people executed for treason are dragged by a hook and thrown to the river Tiber.
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I, Claudius / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
I, Claudius / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Several Roman lawyers are portrayed like this. Claudius greatly dislikes them, and when he becomes Emperor he tries to favor those few honest lawyers that work in the Forum.
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I, Claudius / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
I, Claudius / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: After Sejanus' downfall, his three innocent children are executed as well. Also, after Herod Agrippa's death, his two young daughters are raped by a mob. Camilla, Claudius' young betrothed, is poisoned by an unknown woman. Livia claims her murder was a vengeance against the girl's uncle, but it is hinted that Livia herself might have been behind it.
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I, Claudius / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
I, Claudius / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: Hermann is this to Varus, before leading the German tribes in open rebellion. Sejanus to Gaius. Practically all of Claudius' freedmen, except for Narcissus.
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I, Claudius / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
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I, Claudius / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
I, Claudius / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: The Julio-Claudians. Claudius recalls an old folk song that says his family's (the Claudians) tree produces good and bad apples, but the bad outnumber the good; the best include his father, Drusus, and his elder brother Germanicus; the worst include his grandmother Livia, his uncle Tiberius, his older sister Livilla, his nephew Gaius Caligula, and great-nephew Nero.
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I, Claudius / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
I, Claudius / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Vipsania and Drusus to Tiberius early on in the story; Claudius notes that initially their influence checked the worse elements of his nature, but as he was forced to divorce Vipsania and Drusus was sent on a military campaign to a different part of the empire, their influence on Tiberius was removed and he gradually went altogether to the bad (especially after the two died). Later, and to a lesser degree, Cocceius Nerva to Tiberius. Caesonia tries to be this to Caligula, advising him to rule mildly and earn people's love. Unfortunately, this only makes Caligula announce that he will grant everyone amnesty and rule with love for a thousand of years, but only after purging Senate.
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I, Claudius / int_ba440e1	type	THeUnfavorite
I, Claudius / int_ba440e1	comment	The Un-Favorite: Claudius is this both to his own mother and to the whole imperial family.
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I, Claudius / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
I, Claudius / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: In his last years, Tiberius feels sorry for himself after having murdered Sejanus, Agrippina and countless other people.
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I, Claudius / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
I, Claudius / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Claudius reveals early on that he had learned of a prophecy that describes his predecessors and himself, and speaks of his successor as horrible, and the last. Claudius interprets this to mean that his successor will be Rome's last Emperor, and that after him, the Republic will be restored, which is why he allows the horrible Nero to be his successor. However, the prophecy actually means (as the audience knows but Claudius doesn't) that Nero will be the last Julio-Claudian Emperor (but will of course have numerous successors). Caligula is told to beware of "Cassius". He interprets this as a warning againts his brother-in-law Cassius Longinus. In the end, he's killed by Cassius Chaerea. Tiberius is told that in ten years, "Tiberius Caesar" will still be emperor. He interprets it as a reassurance that he has ten more years to live and reign. He dies not long after that, and the prophecy is fulfilled by his nephew Claudius, whose first name is also Tiberius and who takes the surname Caesar when he becomes emperor.
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I, Claudius / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
I, Claudius / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: After completing his conquest of Britain, Claudius has a dream in which his beloved brother Germanicus tells him how proud he is.
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I, Claudius / int_bcb8e1cb	type	I, Noun
I, Claudius / int_bcb8e1cb	comment	I, Noun: The book may be the Ur-Example.
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I, Claudius / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
I, Claudius / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Urgulanilla, Claudius' first wife, appears to have been infatuated with her sister-in-law Numantina, and is greatly upset when her brother divorces her. She takes as a lover a male slave named Boter, who is said to look very much like Numantina. Claudius suspects Caligula has a male lover, his cousin, known as Ganymede, but never confirms it.
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I, Claudius / int_be009544	type	Holy City
I, Claudius / int_be009544	comment	Holy City: The Jews believe the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem. It becomes an important plot point because it leads Herod Agrippa, who was born there, to believe he is the Messiah.
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I, Claudius / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
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I, Claudius / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
I, Claudius / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Lupus, one of the guards sentenced for the murder of Caligula and his family, is shivering with cold and fear before his execution. Messalina's counts as this, at least In-Universe, since she is too afraid to kill herself when told she's been sentenced to death.
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I, Claudius / int_be5d0950	type	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate
I, Claudius / int_be5d0950	comment	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Tiberius is cold and bitter due to his mother's machinations to make him Emperor. When he does become Emperor, he spends much of his time at the pleasure island of Capri as opposed to ruling in Rome. His nephew and heir Germanicus is much more friendly and approachable. When some Roman legions start to mutiny, Germanicus takes care of the situation by talking to them and winning them over. He's so popular with the troops that Tiberius starts to worry he might pose a threat to his rule.
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I, Claudius / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
I, Claudius / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Julia and Messalina, the latter taking it to absurd levels. Narcissus compiles a list of people she slept with while married to Claudius. The first draft contains 54 names, but it's later extended to 155.
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I, Claudius / int_bf414570	type	Cunning Like a Fox
I, Claudius / int_bf414570	comment	Cunning Like a Fox: Several characters display this, since cunning is indispensable to survive in the imperial court, but Herod Agrippa is the most notorious.
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I, Claudius / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
I, Claudius / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Claudius and Messalina. It doesn't work out well; Messalina is able to manipulate Claudius while cheating on him with just about everyone. Claudius and Agrippinilla as well, though she isn't the beauty she once was by the time they get married.
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I, Claudius / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
I, Claudius / int_c2c92862	comment	Unwanted Spouse: Claudius and his first wife Urgulanilla, though he says that there's so little feeling between them that he can't even say they were unhappy with each other. When he announces he's divorcing her for adultery (orchestrated by Sejanus), she doesn't contest the charges when presented with them. Ironically of all his wives she's the only one who never treats him harshly or tries to manipulate him for her own gain, and outright states in her will that he is not an idiot like everyone else thinks. It's also safe to say that he bears her no ill will either, going out of his way to spare her illegitimate child; he demands the baby so he can expose it (as a Roman husband was expected to do), but he has a freedman tell her that if she gives him a reasonably-recent stillbirth (not hard to come by back then) he won't ask questions.
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I, Claudius / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
I, Claudius / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-Universe. Claudius is devastated when he hears that Sejanus's underage children have been murdered as part of The Purge, and that in order to avoid sacrilege, the Guards first dressed the boy up in a man's toga, and raped the girl to make them (technically) adults before they were killed. He says that nothing Rome ever does can atone for such a crime.
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I, Claudius / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
I, Claudius / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: The Druids sacrifice young men to their gods, something Claudius considers barbaric (although, as a result of Deliberate Values Dissonance, he has no qualms abouth sacrificing animals to the Roman gods).
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I, Claudius / int_c6c63509	type	Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster
I, Claudius / int_c6c63509	comment	Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster: Claudius.
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I, Claudius / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
I, Claudius / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: What Roman generals (like Quinctilius Varus of the "WHERE ARE MY EAGLES!" fame) were expected to do after losing battles. Another form of ritual suicide (by opening a vein) was also available to people facing political disgrace, or to people who had simply grown tired of life. In general, an honorable death-by-suicide could save everyone a lot of trouble—for example, a condemned traitor would usually forfeit his property, leaving his family destitute. (Of course, when doing this, it's always handy to have one's treacherous wife standing by to gut-stab you should you chicken out at the last minute...)
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I, Claudius / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
I, Claudius / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Lampshaded in Claudius The God when he doesn't relate his battle plan while conquering Britain because that would make his description of the actual battle repetitious.
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I, Claudius / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
I, Claudius / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Rome becomes this during the reigns of Tiberius and Caligula. Claudius tries in vain to stop the decadence.
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I, Claudius / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
I, Claudius / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Claudius, although it's mostly an act. Lampshaded by Herod Agrippa.
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I, Claudius / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
I, Claudius / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Invoked by one of the men involved in Scribonianus' failed rebellion against Claudius who, after being sentenced to death, accuses the commander of the Praetorian Guard of being part of the plot. The commander is found guilty and dies with the other conspirators.
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I, Claudius / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
I, Claudius / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The books are mostly straightforward and realistic, but there are a few suspiciously accurate prophecies regarding the fates of the emperors that are difficult to explain away as coincidence.
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I, Claudius / int_cc017ca0	type	Emasculated Cuckold
I, Claudius / int_cc017ca0	comment	Emasculated Cuckold: Caligula has a fetish for boning other men's wives, both to satiate his own lusts and to humiliate the husbands.
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I, Claudius / int_cc39902e	type	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
I, Claudius / int_cc39902e	comment	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Both Caligula and Nero are described as quite handsome (although Caligula goes bald when he becomes emperor). They are also complete monsters.
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I, Claudius / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
I, Claudius / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Britannicus is told that Nero will become emperor, and that it will inevitably lead to his death if he stays in Rome, but he wants to prevent it, and insists that Claudius allow him to legally become an adult in order to face Agripinilla and Nero. Claudius indulges him, fully knowing that Britannicus won't be able to prevail.
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I, Claudius / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
I, Claudius / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Athenodorus, Claudius and Herod Agrippa's tutor.
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I, Claudius / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
I, Claudius / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Piso's death is staged as a suicide by his wife, Plancina, who in fact murdered him.
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I, Claudius / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
I, Claudius / int_d013cd12	comment	Antonia, who is a very traditional and virtuous Roman matron, is fond of Lovable Rogue Herod Agrippa, and greatly enjoys listening to his stories. She even lends him money from time to time.
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I, Claudius / int_d0bab7f5	type	Royal Inbreeding
I, Claudius / int_d0bab7f5	comment	Royal Inbreeding: The Julio-Claudians practice this to consolidate power. Livia and Augustus had no children of their own, but Livia makes sure that every descendant of Augustus's is married to a descendant of hers. As a result, multiple prominent couples in the story (including Germanicus & Agrippina and Drusus & Livilla) are first-cousins. It gets even more pronounced as it goes, with Caligula sleeping with his sisters and Claudius marrying his niece (though in Claudius's case, the marriage is not consummated).
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I, Claudius / int_d1fc4a16	type	Please Spare Him, My Liege!
I, Claudius / int_d1fc4a16	comment	Please Spare Him, My Liege!: Messalina convinces Claudius to spare the life of a defeated German gladiator. Later, Claudius comes to suspect she wanted to take him as her lover, and that he's the real father of his youngest daughter Octavia.
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I, Claudius / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
I, Claudius / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The attentive reader will note that Claudius ends up making many of the same mistakes as Emperor he criticized others for making, including holding on to absolute power despite professing to want to restore the old Roman Republic. Of course, since he's the viewpoint character, he has perfectly good and justifiable reasons. At the end of Claudius the God, Claudius also realizes this.
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I, Claudius / int_d5b7a6e3	type	Denied Food as Punishment
I, Claudius / int_d5b7a6e3	comment	Denied Food as Punishment: Many people imprisoned by Tiberius are slowly starved to death, such as Julia, Gallus, Drusus and Livilla.
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I, Claudius / int_d5ca97d	type	Dream-Crushing Handicap
I, Claudius / int_d5ca97d	comment	Dream-Crushing Handicap: Claudius craves to serve his country, specially during the German war, but his disabilities cause Augustus and Tiberius to dismiss his requests out of hand.
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I, Claudius / int_f9636192	comment	Prophecies Are Always Right: In Claudius the God, Claudius is told by Messalina that a prophecy says that her husband is going to die in a month. She uses this to convince him to divorce her (strictly pro forma!) and marry her off to another man. When Claudius realises that it was a plot against him, he sentences that man to death. When a wounded wolf-cub falls into the boy Claudius's hands, his mother sends the children away to consult an augur. Claudius's sister eavesdrops, though, and hears the meaning: that Rome (the wolf) will be in desperate straits, and Claudius will protect it. She sneers "I hope I'll be long dead before then!", and her mother angrily punishes her, "You're going to be locked up in a room with nothing to eat"—both inadvertent prophecies, as the mother ends up starving her adult daughter to death years later. Tiberius has an astrologer who successfully predicts his rise to power, then warns him to "beware when your own lizard sends him a message". When Tiberius sees his pet giant lizard suddenly dead and being torn apart by ants, his own death follows shortly after. Repeatedly in both books, there are prophecies of a new god arising—saying such things as that he will die alone and his friends will drink his blood, but that no temple in the Roman Empire will be dedicated to any god but him. Both Livia and Caligula believe that the prophecies are about them, but they're mistaken; rather, these seem to be prophecies of Christianity displacing the Roman religion.
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I, Claudius	hasFeature	Villainous Incest / int_4a9ecddc
I, Claudius	seeAlso	I, Claudius

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