All Roads lead to Rome!
When we embarked on this journey to tell stories from our times, we looked at the rear-view mirror to find where we came from.
Where we stand today is a path, we have taken over several decades. Curiosity made us trace back to the origins of those paths, and voila! – we found All Roads lead to Rome!
In Rome, we found Claudius, the fourth Roman Emperor, who narrated the stories of the early Roman Empire. In his youth, Claudius suffered from several conditions, like a persistent stammer, a limp, and other similar physical disabilities, and everyone considered Claudius was not fit to be an emperor. Yet, Claudius was a bright and capable administrator and became emperor at age 50 in AD41 and reigned till AD54.
Claudius was truthful and critical in his writings about the Empire’s murderous dynasty politics and was not popular even with his mother and grandmother. They wanted him to stay away from chronicling the events and stories of Roman civil wars.
Claudius was interested in history and trained to be a historian. Claudius genuinely believed that he was a divine calling to write the truth about Roman history. He believed that historians of that time fabricated the truth, feared the ruling families, and favored them!
As an Emperor, Claudius honestly believed that he was chosen to tell the truth and preserve history; however, distasteful, shameless, or unsavory the actions of his family or his predecessors may have been.
Claudius’s biography and the history of the Roman Empire written by him in eight books went mysteriously missing. Several modern historians and chroniclers of the Roman Empire’s Rise and fall held Claudius in high esteem and documented his life
and history in thousands of books written about him. One such professionally researched book on Claudius is by Robert Graves, in 1934, titled, “I, Claudius.”
We are proud to follow in the traditions of Claudius.
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