The Roman Empire: the Reign of the Gods
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The author of "The Roman Empire: The Reign of Gods" borrows the tone of Tiberius Claudius, the fourth emperor of ancient Rome, to narrate the historical stories of this emperor's reign. After the Roman tyrant Caligula was killed, people immediately elected Claudius as emperor. The emperor suffered from polio since he was a child and stuttered. He was always regarded as a fool and laughed at. However, he escaped the suspicion of the tyrant and the political struggle in the palace, allowing him to become a ruler at a relatively old age. The historical Claudius was a historian, and an extremely diligent one. He wrote twenty volumes of the History of Etruria and eight volumes of the History of Carthage, all in Greek, plus an autobiography and a treatise on the Roman alphabet. This novel, written in the tone of a historian, is full of familiar Roman historical stories, as well as court anecdotes and power struggles that are unfamiliar to us. It all chronicles the crimes and follies of the Roman Empire in its early days, as well as its glory. Claudius may have a mediocre personality compared to other Roman emperors, but during his reign, he completely rectified and cleaned up the state of the country that had been messed up by the tyrant Caligula. Moreover, his beautiful little wife Messalina and his successor wife Agrippina the Younger also left a big name in history.
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