Looking back now, the filming on TV is still very rigorous, the British English is always more comfortable than the Hollywood American accent, and the lines are always Shakespearean.
What makes I, Claudius special, is that it eschews the over-consumption of the Caesar era, and directly starts from Augusto's later years, intercepting the entire process of Rome's decline from glory to decline. In fact, we Chinese are very familiar with such stories: court coups, murders, unsuccessful successors, and Rome wiped out the foundation laid by its ancestors in the bloody storms again and again. To a certain extent, this is Caesar's coronation sin. Kingship is like a Pandora's box. Once opened, it can't be closed again: who can guarantee that he will not marry an ambitious wife, or deliberately kill his father's child?
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