jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> dixit:
> >On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:24:30 +0900, CL <flothru@yahoo.com> brought
> >down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>
> >>If you remember your "I Clavdivs" he was portrayed as a half dressed,
> >>extremely gaye, sadistic, violent, not a very nice person at all ... who
> >>played a fiddle.
>
> >Sure you're not thinking about Caligula? I can't recall the
> >fiddle-while-Rome-burns Nero making an appearance like that in "I,
> >Claudius".
>
> I'm with Michael. Nero was Claudius' stepson, and didn't make much
> of an appearance until Claudius died.
>
You are correct

> Caligula was Claudius' predecessor (and nephew). He was a really nasty
> piece of work.
>
He was also the subject of a great play and a movie that was not so
great except that it had lots and lots of nudity.

John W.