: About Me

* The Experience Myth Probably no one History wanted power less, and needed it more than Claudius, who became the fourth Roman emperor. Living in the turbulent epicenter of an Empire plagued by intrigue and ambition; a dangerous place where no one was safe; Claudius survived precisely because he had no desire for what others craved. Anyone who has read the marvelous books by Robert Graves or seen the TV series I Claudius knows that the purple and the ultimate power behind it was thrust on the lame, stuttering scholar on pain of death. The threatening sword had to persuade the cripple to ta...