Homer's Daughter
by:
Robert Graves (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780304292516 (0304292516)
Publisher: Cassell
Pages no: 204
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...