I love the Interweb. Did you know:
Today is the 1951st anniversary of everyone’s favourite despot
being bumped off by poisoned mushrooms prepared by his niece/wife.
I, Claudius was the first book I read that made me wish I’d studied history. The TV series
is just as much fun, and makes it a lot easier to tell which characters are in a scene.
Apparently the romans only had about VII names per gender, so they stuck them together to make unique strings:
tcn: Morning, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus.
tcdng: Morning, Tiberius Claudius Nero. Have you seen Nero Claudius Drusus today?
tcn: I think he’s having breakfast with Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus.
tcdng: Tell him to stay off the mushrooms.