Talk:Claudius

Does this sentence require revision?

Art: "She gradually seized power from Emperor Claudius and successfully conspired to eliminate his son's rivals and she was able to successfully open the way for her son to become emperor." Did the editor mean to say, "eliminate her son's rivals"? ( comma also is missing in front of the independent clause.) Am I wrong in thinking that this entire article should be examined for misplaced modifiers? (AltheaCase (talk) 20:28, 22 June 2022 (UTC))

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Death Cap

@Apokryltaros: regarding this revert, the source (Aveline) on pages 473-474 says:

1. "Amanita Phaloides, more commonly known as Death Cap, was first suggested in 1960 by Robert Graves"
2. "The difficulty is that amanita poisoning takes much longer than a single day...three to ten days...this does not match the course of Claudius; death""
3. "What is a greater difficulty is that amanita phalloides are extremely toxic...he would have eaten the lethal mushroom during dinner the previous day and it would be a most extraordinary coincidence for him to be the only victim"
4. "There is a better suggestion which has been offered...Valente has recently...identified a mushroom, amanita muscarea, as the likely culprit".
5. "This mushroom does not contain sufficient amounts of the toxin, muscarine, to be fatal in normal circumstances, but Dr Valente suggests that a previous medical condition such as dystonia could amplify the affects of muscarine to the point it could be fatal. This explains why only Claudius was affected by the mushrooms since only he was medically sensitive to the toxin they contained"
6. The last paragraph of the piece: "On October 12, 54 at a dinner party at his home a dish of amanita muscarina were served. Although a number of people ate them, only Claudius, suffering as he did from dystonia, was made seriously ill. During the night he died"

So, it says A.phalloides was suggested by Graves, makes clear that this is unlikely, and says that Valente's suggestion of amanita muscarea is the more likely. DeCausa (talk) 16:03, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Birth name of Claudius

The birth name is straight up missing. Hazythundermc (talk) 13:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

@Hazythundermc please see the answers you already received on Talk:Augustus and Talk:Napoleon before posting similar threads across more pages. Remsense ‥ 论 13:52, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Filiation

Considering his father Nero Claudius Drusus had certainly abandoned his birth praenomen Decimus by the time he was married and had children, it seems rather unlikely that Claudius would ever have used the filiation "D.f.", which the article uses. More likely he would have been "Drusi. f." or similar. ★Trekker (talk) 19:32, 22 February 2026 (UTC)