This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batch for spending time with Professor Douglas Boyne.

His new book is Claudia, a champion of Rome.

Claudia born 95, as the younger brother who's ambitious and leads the tribunes to correct and reform the Roman

conduct at the time of their maturity.

Claudia's our heroine loses her husband suddenly after he's counsel.

He dies four months later.

Mattelis is gone.

She has a daughter and she's unmarried.

But because of a confusion of inheritance laws, which will be corrected later in favor of the men,

she inherits not only her father's portion, but of her dowry, but also her husband's estates and becomes extremely wealthy,

not under a mandate to marry right away.

It doesn't need to.

She sponsors her younger brother, the Tribune.

This leads her to be an independent woman,

which is generally understood to be a little outside of the ruled book in Rome, but accepted.

However, there's a man named Cicero.

We've introduced him.

He's been counseled.

He's now a magic voice.

You hire him when you're in trouble.

He also is obsessed with Claudia.

Why? We don't know, do we, Douglas? We don't know what that

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