![]() ![]() It’s not surprising, then, to find references to I, Claudius peppered throughout A Song of Ice and Fire. Back in 2014, he told Esquire that the grumpy and unpopular leader Stannis Baratheon was partly inspired by George Baker’s performance as Tiberius in I, Claudius. In 2020, he posted about the show on his ‘Not A Blog’, and called it “one of the greatest television series ever made” (and added that he has also read and enjoyed the novels). Martin is a fan of this TV series, and it was one of the many things that influenced the shaping of his world of Westeros and Essos. ![]() In 1976, it was adapted for the BBC into a very well-received 13-part TV series starring Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, and Brian Blessed as Claudius, Livia (the wife of Augustus) and Augustus, respectively. It was written as the fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor Claudius, and between the novel and its 1935 sequel Claudius the God, it covers the reigns of the Roman emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, with an introduction to early Nero. ![]() In 1934, Robert Graves’ novel I, Claudius was published. ![]() But there’s another semi-historical influence on Martin’s world that is not so often talked about. ![]()
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