Rome in literature

“I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles), who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot” or “That Claudius”, or “Claudius the Stammerer”, or “Clau-Clau-Claudius”, or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius”, am now about to write this strange history of my life;”

“I, Claudius” by Robert Graves