Here, his worst enemies would turn out to be his own wives. Claudius had simply awful taste in women. Although he adored his wife, Messalina, she was extravagant and promiscuous, with a particular ...

Episode two focuses on Agrippina, sister of the emperor Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero, and she outdoes even Livia in her outrageous plotting. She seduces the emperor Claudius ...

Claudius stayed in Corsica for eight years until Agrippina, Claudius' third and final wife, arranged his return to Rome to tutor her son, Nero. This raised ethical problems: stoics avoided ...