Global Perspectives Book Club "I, Claudius"

Global Perspectives is a group devoted to exploring history and looking at diverse perspectives through fiction. The program is held monthly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from February-October 2026 at 6pm in the Carnegie Library meeting room. We alternate between discussing a book one month to viewing a movie the next month throughout the series. Be sure to email arobertson@munpl.org if you would like to join our email list. This Month's Book:This month, we will read I, Claudius by Robert Graves, a novel set in Rome during the 1st century. Synopsis from Goodreads:Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B. C. to 54 A. D. Despised as a weakling and dismissed as an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings that marked the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the mad Caligula to become emperor of Rome in 41 A. D. The first part of Robert Graves’s two-part account of the life of Tiberius Claudius, I, Claudius stands as a landmark historical novel of the 20th century from one of its great writers.