• Augustus, Livia, Marcellus - Julia, Agrippa, Octavius, Maecenaes, Tiberius (Uncle), Drusus (Father)
• Livia: “malignity” & ambition

• Relationships and heir apparent - Marcellus(adopted son) vs Agrippa (right hand man)
• How Agrippa sidesteps confrontation with Marcellus by becoming the Governor of Syria
• Marcellus unexpectedly dies, and then Agrippa returns and marries Julia
• Tiberius as man and general
  • relationship with wife
  • with brother Drusus

• Drusus, Tiberius, Augustus, Livia, Xenophon

• Drusus' idea about freedom and rule –> conflict with Livia … and then Augustus
• Conflict with Livia
• Death, just as he was recalled back to Rome of gangrene – saw Tiberius at deathbed
• Claudius birth
  • 1 year before Drusus' death
  • 7th child, weak consitution –> most people did not expect him to live, much less rule

• Tutors: Marcus Portius Cato (bad, relative of Cato the Censor), Athenodorus, Sulpicius
• Livy
• Physical defects
• Relationships
  • Mother
  • Gemanicus and Postumos
• Wolf cub story
• Elegiac epigram between Augustus, Athenodorus and himself –> Marmoset
• His views on slaves and working animals

• Estrangement with Julius - background, events and aftermath
• The banishment/self-exie
• Julia's bad behaviour (due to Livia's love philtre) –> eventual severe exile
• Rise & fall of Gaius and Lucius –> ending with their deaths
• Restoration of Tiberius

• Aemilia (wife of Lucius, daughter of Aemilius), Medullinus, Medullina/ Camilla, Livia
• Meeting Camilla, match and death by poison on wedding day
• Match with Aemilia planned (but opposed by Augustus, Aemilia herself, and Claudius)
• Triangle between Livilla (Cladius' sister with Postumus and Castor) –> marries Castor
• Failed nascent plot by Aemilius and Cornelius against Augustus –> repercussions including marriage with Claudius called off

• People: Urgulania (the Confessor to Vestal virgins, and Livia's best friend), Urgulannilla (her grand daughter)
• The hideous Urgulania and her usefulness to Livia
• Son Silvanus and the AEmilius plot
• Claudius and Urgulanilla - their strange match and comparison to Aristophane's Flood

• Claudius meets Pollio who comes to the Library with Livy and Sulpicius looking for a martial tactics book
• They discuss Claudius reading - which is Pollio's own book
• The two styles of the history they write are contrasted
  • Claudius chooses Pollio over Livy
  • “There are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth”
  • Pollio gives Claudius a prophecy and advice about his both their lives

Graves, R. (1978). I, Claudius: From the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54. Penguin Books.