Robert Graves

British poet and novelist who wrote I Claudius, Claudius the God, The White Goddess, Goodbye to All That, and Count Belisarius — whose WWI memoir Goodbye to All That and Roman historical novels are his most enduring works — who spent most of his later life in Majorca.

Created the definitive voice for Roman historical fiction — I Claudius and Claudius the God's combination of authentic Tacitean detail with the modernist psychological novel technique created the template for all subsequent Roman historical fiction.