Character guide · 3 books · 1934 to 1938 · Mostly set in Rome

Robert Graves

Historical fiction Literary and generalAncient world Literary fiction

Robert Graves, poet and classicist, wrote I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the "autobiography" of the stammering, scholarly Roman emperor who survived the poisonings and plots of his family to reach the throne.

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