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Roger Bisley as Aulus Plautius and Senator.James Fagan as Asprenas and Julia's lover.Jon Laurimore as Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus.Jonathan Burn as Paullus Fabius Maximus.
Roy Purcell as Publius Vitellius the Younger.Aubrey Richards as Lucius Visellius Varo.Jennifer Croxton as Plautia Urgulanilla.Norman Rossington as Sergeant of the Guard.Moira Redmond as Domitia Lepida the Younger.John Bennett as Gaius Stertinius Xenophon.Darien Angadi as Gaius Plautius Silanus.Freda Dowie as Milonia Caesonia & Sibyl.John Cater as Tiberius Claudius Narcissus.Bernard Hepton as Marcus Antonius Pallas.Stratford Johns as Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso.Christopher Guard as Marcus Claudius Marcellus.John Rhys-Davies as Naevius Sutorius Macro.Eventually, Claudius comes to accept the inevitability of his own assassination and consents to marrying his scheming niece, Agrippina the Younger, clearing the way for the ascent of his mad stepson, Nero, whose disastrous reign Claudius vainly hopes will bring about the restoration of the Roman Republic. Claudius' enlightened reign is marred by the betrayals of his adulterous wife Messalina and his boyhood friend Herod Agrippa.
The plotting, double-crossing, and murder continue for many decades, through the reign of Tiberius, the political conspiracy of his Praetorian Prefect Sejanus, and the depraved rule of the lunatic emperor Caligula, culminating in the accidental rise to power of his uncle Claudius. An expert poisoner, Livia uses the covert assassination and betrayal of all rivals to achieve her aims, beginning with the death in 22 BC of Marcellus. The series opens with Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, attempting to find an heir, and his wife, Livia, plotting to elevate her own son Tiberius to this position. I, Claudius follows the history of the early Roman Empire, narrated by the elderly Roman Emperor Claudius, from the year 24 BC to his death in AD 54. Main article: List of I, Claudius episodes The series covers the history of the early Roman Empire, told from the perspective of the elderly Emperor Claudius who narrates the series.Īmong many other productions and adaptations, Graves' Claudius novels have also been adapted for BBC Radio 4 broadcast (2010) and for the stage (1972). Written by Jack Pulman, it stars Derek Jacobi as Claudius, with Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, Margaret Tyzack, John Hurt, Patricia Quinn, Ian Ogilvy, Kevin McNally, Patrick Stewart, and John Rhys-Davies. I, Claudius (stylized as I♼LAVDIVS) is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' 1934 novel I, Claudius and its 1935 sequel Claudius the God.
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