I Claudius ep1 a Touch of Murder (6/10)

Go watch the complete episode here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9PA_DB9K04

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Claudius
• Rome
• tiberius
• augustus
• livia
• touch
• of
• murder
• poison

[wiseguyz123]

"They say a snake bit her...and died." LOL

[Pittounikos]

Back in the 70's the BBC's ethos was to educate the proles. Sort of like the theory of trickle-down economics. Pump out quality programs and hopefully it will seep into the body politic. Today the BBC has completely given in to the politicians and the press, who accuse it of elitism and being out of touch with the people etc... Thus the BBC is forced to entertain rather than to educate and to compete with commercial crap so it can justify the licence fee.

[MjoEm32]

It's a banal statement - but the acting in this is just so consistently, outstandingly good. I must read the two books again.

[Freefalldreams]

@packjim56 Well, it's "lass", but that mistake's made a lot. I was driving my parents nuts by the time I was eight, having finished the entire British equivalent of "Dick and Jane" at six. I chose to devour every bit of printed matter I could get my hands on, regardless of whether it was trash or classics, suitable for a child or not...very C.S. Lewis! Luckily my father decided to introduce me to Claudius, which occupied me for a while...

[packjim56]

@Freefalldreams Good for you lad! Very encouraging to hear that. When I was eight, I had difficulty getting through an entire "Dick and Jane" book.

[Freefalldreams]

@packjim56 Well, I'm only 20, but I first read Claudius at the age of eight, and I never use the philistine gibber-gabber that swamps the Internet.

[Soundfrequency]

What could happen to me?

Well a horse could fall on you and kill you?

Haha! What a ludicrous thought, ahhh us brothers, eh? We'll both live long happy lives, certainly not as some crude, dusty old pervert on a tropical island leading a nation into ruin.

[Guedingen]

Outstanding. heartfelt thanks for the time you've put into this.

[waste0fspais]

well..this show fuckin sucks eh?

[stevehayes13]

@Pittounikos How very true and how very shameful.

[Hendrikdevuile]

6.08 My Latin teacher told me that being scraped with a strigulum in a steam bath gets the skin cleaner than any other method. Oil or honey might be applied before scraping.

[packjim56]

My everyone commenting on these I Claudius uploads seem so coherent, concise, and....... articulate. Not used to that on youtube. Hmmm. I think everyone is checking their grammar (and spelling) before posting and not writing in some weird sort of short hand, that teenagers employ while texting. You know, the "OMG" stuff. I suspect that most of the people posting on these videos are over 40 years of age. That's most unusual.