I, Claudius: Robert Graves

Claudius the idiot. That fool, Claudius. Poor Uncle Claudius. All these titles and less complimentary ones were applied to Claudius, cursed with a limp and a stammer. Believed to be of no intelligence, he became the shameful and pitiable member of the Roman Imperial family, pushed to the background, despised, ignored and married off now and again for political alliances. All he wanted to do was study and write his histories - and no-one was more surprised or dismayed than he when - having survived the golden age of Augustus and the bloody reigns of Tiberius and Caligula - he was elected Emperor of Rome by four thousand cheering Praetorian guards. Here is all the folly, grandeur and vileness of early Imperial Rome. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/claudius-the-god-robert-graves/