I, Claudius Lesson Plan

Where/Who did Claudius visit to ask about the fate of both Rome and himself? What prophecy was he given? What is the meaning behind the prophecy?

He went to visit the Sibyl at Cumae, in Campania. She told him, "Who groans beneath the Punic Curse and strangles in the strings o purse,before she mends must sicken worse. Her living mouth shall breed blue flies, and maggots creep about her eyes. No man shall mark the day she dies. Ten years, fifty days and three, Clau-Clau-Clau- shall given be a gift that all desire but he. To a fawning fellowship he shall stammer, cluck and trip, dribbling always with his lip. But when he's dumb and no more here, nineteen hundred years...