Background and reading schedule

[Tracey]

The author: Poet, historian, prolific writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...


http://www.robertgraves.org/trust/boo...

Suggested reading schedule:
34 chapters therefore 9/week will complete the book in the month of October

[Rosemarie]

I read this novel years ago and also watched with great interest the original Masterpiece Theatre series based on this novel. It is quite a book.
The book Lives of the Caesars, Volume I: Julius/Augustus/Tiberius/Gaius Caligula by Suetonius is a great resource for the novel. The book is very dramatic as well. There is a second volume as well, about later Caesars.

[Tracey]

If once you start reading you get confused who is related to whom then check these sites. If you find any better ones please post here.

http://robertspage.com/claudius.html

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/files/201...

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2229/2...

[Tracey]

Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, England in 1895 and in 1913 received a scholarship to attend St John's College, Oxford. With the outbreak of WWI, he enlisted and was seriously injured in 1916. He was left for dead but was luckily found in a pile of corpses. He was nursed back to health but then sent back to the front for another 2 years. He published poetry during this time and throughout his life considered himself foremost to be a poet. He became known as one of England's finest war poets.

As well as over 50 volumes of verse, Graves wrote historical works and works of mythology and by the time of his death had written over 140 works. He died in 1985 at the age of 91.

[Joseph]

I've seen parts of the Masterpiece Theatre miniseries.

[Rosemarie]

I have recently read Robert Graves autobiography, ending after his experiences during the war, called Goodbye to All That, and highly recommend it to those who want to learn more about this author.