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Emperor Claudius

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The Life and Times of Claudius

Claudius was never trained or prepared to become emperor, yet by all accounts he did a very good job. His death was under suspicious circumstances and some believe that Agrippina poisoned him. Despite having grown up being ridiculed by his own family about his intelligence, Claudius proved to be the greatest intellectual emperor ever other than perhaps Marcus Aurelius.

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