Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor taste in ...

In a city rife with backstabbers, an overlooked member of Rome’s ruling family plays dumb to stay alive and unwittingly becomes the most powerful man on earth. Robert Graves’ brilliant novel has been ...

All of this means we are in a golden age of television, as I pompously inform my parents whenever they persuade me to leave the sofa. I have to binge watch all of these shows, I say. What if I go to a ...

From Newsnight to Doctor Who, the Roman historian on what she digs and what she’d leave undisturbed I try not to miss Newsnight or Question Time, even though both of them often make me cross. That’s ...

As the 1976 adaptation of I, Claudius concludes its run on BBC Four, Ben Lawrence suggests how the new HBO version can repeat its success. It has been announced that US TV network HBO has commissioned ...