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In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaa. In Robert Graves's words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a…
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Graves develops the characters and plot in this book fictionally, but he believes Homer’s Odyssey was written by a character in the epic, Nausicaa, princess of Sicily, as he argues in his historical note.
It’s a lively and adventurous story, and Graves’ conviction that a woman authored this work attributed to Homer adds to its charm. Later mythic retellings are based on the stories they spring from, but Graves sheds new light on the Odyssey itself through Nausicaa’s point of view.
His nonfiction works, The Greek Myths and The White Goddess, are also brilliant, original approaches to mythology and…
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