Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

British Film and television director Herbert Wise, whose work included the seminal miniseries “I, Claudius,” died Aug. 5 in London. He was 90. When it aired on BBC Two in 1976, the critically beloved ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Producer Scott Rudin has picked up the film rights to Robert Graves' Roman Empire-set novel, "I, Claudius." Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter William Monahan, who worked together on "The Departed," ...

In a $2 million deal, producer Scott Rudin has acquired screen rights to the Robert Graves historical novel “I, Claudius.” It’s expected that “The Departed” tandem of Leonardo DiCaprio and ...

READERS of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius will remember that that book ended with the assassination of Caligula and the election by the army of Claudius as emperor. Claudius the God is not so much a ...

A RICH FAMILY takes control of one of the world’s two superpowers and rules for generations with the aid of a compliant Senate. That is not the plot of a 21st-century political satire but of “I, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 21, 2021. The original video can be viewed here. When workers broke ground on an underground parking lot in the heart of Rome 18 years ago ...

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 taste in ...