How many sequels to I, Claudius (1934) did Robert Graves write?
Robert Graves wrote one sequel to I, Claudius, Claudius the God, published in 1934.
It charts Claudius’s rule from 41 A.D. until his poisoning by his wife Agrippina in 54 A.D.
Robert Graves wrote one sequel to I, Claudius, Claudius the God, published in 1934.
It charts Claudius’s rule from 41 A.D. until his poisoning by his wife Agrippina in 54 A.D.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) by Oscar Wilde includes the statement “I can resist everything except temptation”.
Unlike the 1988 film adaptation, in which Roy Hobbs wins the World Series with a pyrotechnic home run, Bernard Malamud’s original story The Natural has the slugger, preoccupied with sex and materialism, throw the final game of the World Series.
The seven virtues are: faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.
The wits who traded barbs at New York’s Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s included: Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Frank Case, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood, and Alexander Woollcott. The Algonquin Hotel still stands. It was recently sold to a group of…
Sappho (b. 612 B.C.), a lyric poet whose work exists only in fragments, was called the “tenth muse” by some classical writers. Married, she lived in Lesbos and led a group of women who were devoted to music and poetry.
The name of the playboy in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World is Christy Mahon. He’s a young fugitive who thinks he has killed his domineering father and is therefore lionized by villagers, especially women.