{"id":101721,"date":"2026-08-05T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101721"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:05:13","slug":"i-claudius-mcmlxxvi-show-me-the-way-to-go-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/05\/i-claudius-mcmlxxvi-show-me-the-way-to-go-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>I, Claudius<\/em> (MCMLXXVI). Show Me The Way To Go Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qTQayd23gg?si=BUfcn_aR2KzIBza5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Stam Fine<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 3 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Stam Fine Reviews looks at the landmark 1976 classic BBC series <em>I, Claudius<\/em> based on the books by Robert Graves. <em>I, Claudius<\/em> is a sprawling epic looking at four emperors, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius. Claudius had a limp, stammered and facial tics but was a survivor when everyone else around him was murdered. <\/p>\n<p><em>I, Claudius<\/em> is an influential series, even in places you don&#8217;t expect it (<em>The Sopranos<\/em>, <em>Dynasty<\/em>, <em>Succession<\/em>). <\/p>\n<p>Note: The Romans didn&#8217;t use the letter &#8216;U&#8217; at the time unless you upgraded your subscription to Roman+. I do not presently subscribe to Roman+.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, Patrick Stewart, Ian Ogilvy, Simon MacCorkindale, Margaret Tyzack, Patrica Quinn, John Hurt, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:33 <em>Veni, vidi<\/em>, Google Translate <em>usus sum<\/em>.<br \/>\n1:15 Technical Difficulties.<br \/>\n1:34 <em>I, Claudius<\/em> Take Two.<br \/>\n4:09 Augustus and Livia<br \/>\n5:50 Claudius<br \/>\n8:05 Tiberius<br \/>\n10:55 Caligula<br \/>\n13:14 Emperor Claudius<br \/>\n16:00 From Book to BBC2<br \/>\n19:11 Cast<br \/>\n21:24 Legacy<\/p>\n<p>I, Claudius<br \/>\nI, Clavdivs<br \/>\nI Claudius<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stam Fine Published 3 Apr 2026 Stam Fine Reviews looks at the landmark 1976 classic BBC series I, Claudius based on the books by Robert Graves. I, Claudius is a sprawling epic looking at four emperors, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius. Claudius had a limp, stammered and facial tics but was a survivor when everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,4,7,28],"tags":[263,1340,1590,1592,1343,1589,101],"class_list":["post-101721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-history","category-media","tag-1970s","tag-augustus","tag-caligula","tag-claudius","tag-romanempire","tag-tiberius","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qsF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104062,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101721\/revisions\/104062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}