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 ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

Gamm Theatre closes its 40th anniversary season with a captivating new production of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the ...

took on not one, but two roles. "I'm pinch-hitting now as King Claudius and the Ghost," he says. While Cripe Sr. has some acting experience, traced back to theater classes in college, his son ...

Rome, 1st Century AD. Aging Emperor Claudius is writing the history of his family. He starts his recollections before he was born with the court of his grandfather Caesar Augustus. He then ...

Pp. xvii, 357. Illus., maps, tables, stemma, notes, biblio., index. $32.00 paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8. In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography of the fourth emperor, as a look ...