Homer's Daughter
by:
Robert Graves (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141197661 (0141197668)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Robert Graves, best known for I, Claudius, uses Samuel Butler’s theory that The Odyssey was actually written by a Sicilian woman as the inspiration for the novel Homer’s Daughter. Nausicaa, daughter of an Elyman king, faces a host of unwelcome suitors while the king is away and has to devise a means...