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In 41 CE, Rome did something unexpected. It made an emperor out of a man who had spent most of his life being ignored.
That man was Claudius.
Photos in this episode
Proclaiming Claudius Emperor by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=13471, Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2254930
Bust of Emperor Claudius
By Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011), CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23198004
1:10 model reconstruction of a quadrireme
By Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany - (four-banked galley) according to a graffito from Alba Fucens in Italy, mid-1st century AD, Museum für Antike Schiffahrt, Mainz, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65155984
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