Feb 3, 2023 · The cause of Claudius’ death is poisoned mushrooms, as per ancient historians Cassius Dio, Suetonius, and Tacitus. Writing in the third century, Dio details how Agrippina shared a plate of …

^ Claudius was born as 'Tiberius Claudius Drusus' and changed his name after his elder brother was adopted into the Julii following Drusus 's death.[1] Simpson[2] and Hurley[3] suggest that he added …

THE DEATH OF CLAUDIUS Nothing excites the imagination quite as much as a good murder mystery and the death of Claudius fits the bill nicely.' Claudius died suddenly under fairly mysterious …

After marrying his niece Agrippina, Claudius adopted her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (later the emperor Nero) to satisfy Agrippina’s lust for power, much to the disadvantage of his own son …

Claudius appeared on the brink of death, but began to recover. Horrified, Agrippina signed up the emperor's own doctor to her cause.

Death of the Emperor Claudius died on 13th October 54. For a Roman, he was an old man: he was born in 10 BC. Rumours abounded that he had been poisoned. Although there are many instances of …

On October 13th in the year 54, the emperor Claudius died in Rome. He was succeeded by Nero (r. 54-68), who is said to have remarked that mushrooms are the food of the gods, as Claudius died after …

Oct 10, 2004 · Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the ‘I Claudius’ of Robert Graves’s splendid historical novels, was one of the few historians who has ever exercised real power. As a …

Claudius suffered from physical disabilities, including a limp and a speech impediment and was therefore treated with disdain by his family, and not considered as a future emperor.

Claudius was born into the imperial family but was not expected to become emperor because of physical disabilities that led his family to exclude him from public life. This isolation likely saved him from …