Julio-Claudian EmperorsThe dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero.. are condemned to everlasting Infamy, wrote Gibbon. This 'infamy' has inspired the work of historians and novelists from Roman times to the present. Julio Claudian Emperors summarises political events during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, and the civil wars of the 'year of four emperors'. It considers too the extent to which