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Homer's Daughter
Robert Graves
  • Published: 2 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141970912
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Homer's Daughter

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EBook
2 Apr 2012
Paperback
17 May 2012
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Graves's retelling of an ancient epic, The Odyssey, new to Penguin Modern Classics

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 Nausicaä. In Robert Graves's words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl who saves her father's throne from usurpation, herself from a distasteful marriage, and her two younger brothers from butchery by boldly making things happen, instead of sitting still and hoping for the best.'
  • Published: 2 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141970912
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

About the author

Robert Graves

ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985) was a preeminent English poet, novelist, critic, translator, and scholar of classical mythology. He served in World War I—an experience recounted in his 1929 autobiography, Good-Bye to All That —and later became the first professor of English literature at the University of Cairo. Best remembered today for his acclaimed historical novels about the Roman emperor Claudius, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, his other books include Count Belisarius, Lawrence and the Arabs, They Hanged My Saintly Billy, Homer's Daughter, The Golden Fleece, The Siege and Fall of Troy, Ann at Highwood Hall, The White Goddess, The Hebrew Myths, and Collected Poems. He is also the co-author of The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose.
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Also by Robert Graves

I, Claudius: Popular Penguins
The Twelve Caesars
Proceed, Sergeant Lamb
Sergeant Lamb's America
Hebrew Myths
Lawrence and the Arabs
They Hanged My Saintly Billy
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