Homer's Daughter
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First edition (publ. Cassell)
Homer's Daughter is a 1955 novel by Robert Graves, famous for I, Claudius and The White Goddess.
It starts from the idea that Homer's Odyssey was actually written by a princess in the Greek settlements in Sicily. The novel makes an entirely speculative reconstruction of who she was and why she wrote such a work. It has her modifying the legends that existed in her own time to partly match a crisis in her own life.
It is not as famous as the Claudius novels, but has its admirers.[1][2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Carcanet Press - Homer's Daughter and the Anger of Achilles". Carcanet.co.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Robert Graves. "Homer's Daughter". Goodreads. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
