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Just the other week, I won Celebrity Mastermind. I’d come second back in 2003, stumped by the question ‘how many legs does a lobster have?’ (Ten! Who knew!) and it always rankled. So to win this time was a boon. My specialist subject was Women of Imperial Rome. The producers and my fellow contestants were bemused: why?
Ever since I was very young and snuck into the TV room to catch my parents watching the BBC One series I Claudius, I have been smitten with early Imperial Rome. That’s Augustus to Nero Caesar if you want to nail it down specifically. Everything about I Claudius called out to me and piqued my interest. I wasn’t allowed to watch the programme – far too adult – so when I reached the ripe old age of 10, I dug out the Robert Graves’s novels I Claudius and Claudius the God from my dad’s office and devoured them.