I, Claudius; Claudius the God

In a hardcover omnibus for the first time: the beloved novels about the unlikely, overlooked man who survived the turbulent reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula and became Emperor of Rome in spite of himself

A grandson of Mark Antony, young Claudius is mistaken for a weakling and an idiot because of his stutter and his physical infirmities, dismissed as insignificant by his ambitious relatives as they compete for power. He grows up learning to use his reputation for harmlessness as a s...