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Its a pretty well written book, but Levick seems to even mangle english to establish her view. She keeps calling Claudius a usurper. In fact she calls him THE Usurper. But isnt a usurper someone who takes the throne through force and has no right to it? That is a lot different from the last surviving adult male of the imperial family inheriting it when there isnt a will. The book is very cynical in this and other ways.