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From the author The word "golden" is used here in the sense of the generally accepted monetary unit and corresponds to the Latin aureus, a coin equal to one hundred sesterces or twenty-five denarii (silver coin); this is approximately the same as the British pound sterling or five US dollars. The Roman mile is thirty paces shorter than the English mile. For convenience, the dates in the margins are given in modern chronology; According to the Greek chronology used by Claudius, the countdown of years begins from the first Olympiad, which took place in 776 BC. e. From the same considerations, geographical names generally accepted now are given; hence France instead of Transalpine Gaul, since France occupies approximately the same territory, and to name such cities as Nimes, Boulogne and Lyon in a modern way - their classical names will not be recognized by the general reader - placing them in Transalpine Gaul, or, as the Greeks called it, Galatia, would be inconsistent on my part. (Greek geographic terms can only be confusing; for example, Germany was called by them "Land of the Celts.") Similarly, the book used the most familiar forms of proper names - "Livy" for Titus Livius, "Cymbeline" for Cunobelinus, "Mark Antony" for Marcus Antonius. Claudius writes in Greek, as befitted a learned historian of the day, which explains the detailed interpretation of Latin jokes and the translation of the passage from Ennius, which he quotes in the original. Some critics, speaking of the book "I, Claudius", which preceded the "Divine Claudius", expressed the opinion that, while working on it, I gathered the information I needed only in the Annals of Tacitus and the Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, fusing them together, and everything else is the fruit of my "powerful imagination". It is not so: it was not so then, it is not so now. Among the ancient authors whom I had recourse to in the creation of the "Divine Claudius" are Tacitus, Cassius Dio, Suetonius, Pliny, Varro, Valerius Maximus, Orosius, Frontinus, Strabo, Caesar, Columella, Plutarch, Josephus Flavius, Diodorus Siculus, Photius, Xifilinus, Zonara, Seneca, Petronius, Juvenal, Philo, Celsus, the authors of the Acts of the Apostles, the apocryphal gospels of Nicodemus and St. James, and the letters and speeches of Claudius himself that have survived to this day. There are almost no events in the book that are not supported by historical sources of one kind or another, and, I hope, all of them are plausible enough. Each character has a prototype. The most difficult thing was to write the chapters devoted to the defeat of Caratacus by Claudius - mentions of this by contemporary authors are too scarce. In order to give a sufficiently reliable picture of Druidism - the religion of the ancient Celts - I had to supplement the few information about this cult that came from the ancient world, borrowing from archaeological works, ancient sagas and reports of megalithic culture in the New Hebrides, where dolmens and menhirs are still used. during religious ceremonies. I was especially circumspect when speaking of early Christianity, fearing that I would become the author of yet another malicious fabrication, but I could not ignore the previous ones, especially since Claudius himself was not very disposed towards the new church and received most of the information about Middle Eastern religious affairs from his an old school friend of Herod Agrippa, king of the Jews, who executed St. James and threw St. Peter into prison.

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ISBN 5-280-03064-3
Publisher Художественная литература
Publication date 1994
Number of Pages 521
Bookbinding Hardcover

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