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Two years have gone by since I finished writing the long story of how I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, the cripple, the stammerer, the fool of the family, whom none of his ambitious and bloody-minded relatives considered worth the trouble of executing, poisoning, forcing to suicide, banishing to a desert island or starving to death-which was how they one by one got rid of each other-how I survived them all, even my insane nephew Gaius Caligula, and was one day unexpectedly acclaimed Emperor by the corporals and sergeants of the Palace Guard.
- Author
- (by) Robert Graves
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780413370808
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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