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I, Claudius

I, Claudius was a novel. The Tenth Doctor said it made the Roman Emperor Caligula look worse than he really was. (PROSE: The Lonely Computer) Brian Blessed played Augustus in a television adaptation. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

The television series' title was written in a script that made its u's look like v's, so Donna Noble nicknamed the show "I, Clavdivs" for a laugh. When she visited Pompeii with the Tenth Doctor, Donna reacted to learning about the TARDIS' translation circuit enabling her to speak Latin by saying she was "giving it the old I, Clavdivs!" The Doctor was confused, and did not find the joke funny when Donna explained it to him, to which she told him that he'd had to be there. (PROSE: The Fires of Pompeii)

In Roma I, Marcus Americanius Scriptor commissioned and extensively edited an award-winning ostensible-autobiography of Claudius written by his fellow soldier Sepulcrius. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)

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The title of this novel has been referenced by:

The novel has been adapted several times:

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