I, Cladius
Robert Graves, I, Claudius
(the fourth Roman Emperor's 'memoirs' of his bloodthirsty forebears)
Ancient Rome
Peter Vansittart, Three Six Seven (twilight of Roman Britain, late 4th century)
John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons ("memoirs" of actor"s agent mixed up with Roman dictator Sulla in 1st century BC)
Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked (Luke, Paul,and other early Christian missionaries)
"Memoirs"
Joseph Heller, God Knows ("memoirs" of Old Testament King David)
Mary Renault, The King Must Die ("memoirs" of King Theseus of Athens)
Gore Vidal, Creation ("memoirs" of Persian diplomat who knew Socrates, Buddha and Confucius)
Stephen Marlowe, The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus (early disappointments and ironic triumph of unscrupulous adventurer-explorer)
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (reflections of 14th Roman Emperor and philosopher)
Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra ("memoirs" of Philip II of Spain, in deranged old age)
Augusto Roa Bastos, I, The Supreme ("memoirs" of Francia, 19th-century dictator of Paraguay)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch (deathbed monologue of fanatical, deranged South American dictator)
People of the Past (powerful historical novels)
Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World (19th-century South American religious community, communist, waiting for the Apocalypse)
William Golding, The Spire
Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard (12-th century Paris: a monk falls in love with beautiful pupil)
Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
Nicholas Monsarrat, Running Proud (one of Columbus" sailors shipwrecked in New World, is taken for a God)
The Ancient World
Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo ("memoirs" of actor-spy in 4th-century BC Greece)
Peter Green, Alcibiades His Armour (Alcibiades, the Oscar Wilde of ancient Athens)
Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings (memories of chief minister of warrior-pharaih Rameses II)
Joan Grant, Winged Pharaoh (Grant describes her own previous existence in ancient Egypt)
Henry Treece, Medea (powerful evocation of myth-witch, scorned wife who murdered her children)
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Hedylus (Samos, 3rd century BC: ex-courtesan, lover and poet-son meditate delicately on life, love, the arts and politics)