After a little searching, I found this article in The Guardian that might be informative. I only read a few paragraphs that explain Graves's choice of Claudius as the narrator, and I'm going to save the rest for reflection after I finish the book.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...26#maincontent
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Unreliable witness: The decadent and brutal Rome that Robert Graves portrays in his books on the Emperor Claudius owes less to what we know of history than the author's talent for fictional recreation
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