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Hello, and welcome to the history of Rome.

Episode 61.

What?

Me Claudius?

I feel like I could pitch the story of Claudius to studio executives and get them to invest

in my slapstick period comedy about the bumbling, stuttering black sheep of the family, who,

when his crazy nephew is assassinated and no other viable candidates can be found, suddenly

finds himself proclaimed emperor of the Roman Empire.

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