On a January day in forty-one AD, the Roman Empire's future was hiding behind a curtain. When soldiers found Claudius trembling after Caligula's murder, they made him emperor—not because he was capable, but because they thought they could control him. They were wrong.
This episode follows the man Rome mocked for his stammer and limp as he outmaneuvers the Senate, conquers Britain with war elephants, and survives countless plots.
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