Claudius
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The fourth emperor of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty in Rome. Lived August 1, 10 BC-October 13, 54 AD.
He was depicted by Suetonius as "afflicted with a variety of obstinate disorders," with "his mind and body being greatly impaired," and said that his mother called him "a man, that had been only begun, but never finished, by nature."
Robert Graves wrote two famous novels entitled I, Claudius and Claudius the God. These are told as imaginary autobiography, from Claudius' own point of view. Graves depicts Claudius as an able, intelligent man who suffered unjust discrimination because of his nervous disorders.