Jonquil Panting
Auteur van I, Claudius: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama
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I, Claudius turns out to be very good. It gets better with each chapter. A theme is schadenfreude, the German concept of taking pleasure in the suffering of others. This happens on multiple levels, the characters themselves who gleefully poison, plot and destroy their enemies and public at large. And for the reader, who then enjoys their comeuppance. Only Claudius is immune, because he is a "simpleton" humanitarian and democrat. Which saves him. But even that is not enough to protect him in the end. It is a dark portrait of Roman aristocratic amorality.… (meer)