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With folding genealogical table tipped in at rear.īook about-fine, scarce unrestored original dust jacket with gently toned spine and a bit of rubbing to extremities, near-fine. I, Claudius was dramatized by the BBC in 1976 starring Derek Jacobi. Graves translated Apuleius' The Golden Ass and Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars he also published a controversial encyclopedia of Greek Myths containing some of his own original theories. Graves was a gifted classicist at Charterhouse and later Oxford, but decided to pursue literature and poetry after he completed his degree. 'In I, Claudius and its successor, Claudius the God, Robert Graves wrote two of the most resonant historical novels of the century… In impersonating Claudius, Graves displays a scholarly and imaginative understanding of the mores and ethos of the Roman world, and sensationalizes his material only as much as must be expected from a novelist with a living to earn… Graves' people are real Romans, and Claudius' autobiography is credible as the product of a Roman mind' (Parker, 175). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Graves' most famous novel, a very nice copy in the original dust jacket.ĭrawing from such ancient sources as Tacitus and Suetonius, Graves created the secret 'autobiography' of Claudius, narrated 'in the imaginatively and idiosyncratically conceived persona of the emperor' (Drabble, 412). 'I, TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS… AM NOW ABOUT TO WRITE THIS STRANGE HISTORY OF MY LIFE': I, CLAUDIUS, SCARCE FIRST EDITION

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