Homer's Daughter

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

↑ "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.

Robert Graves

Fiction	I, Claudius (1934) Count Belisarius (1938) Sergeant Lamb novels (1940, 1941) The Story of Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton (1943) King Jesus (1946) The Islands of Unwisdom (1949) Seven Days in New Crete (1949) Homer's Daughter (1955)

Non-Fiction	Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) The Long Week-End (1940) The White Goddess (1948) The Greek Myths (1955)

Family	John Cheyne (great-grandfather) Leopold von Ranke (great-great-uncle) Charles Graves (grandfather) William Newzam Nicholson (grandfather-in-law) Alfred Perceval Graves (father) William Nicholson (father-in-law) Mabel Pryde (mother-in-law) Charles Patrick Graves (brother) Philip Graves (half-brother) Ben Nicholson (brother-in-law) Christopher Nicholson (brother-in-law) Nancy Nicholson (wife) Sally Chilver (niece) Alexander Clifford (son-in-law) Clifford Dalton (son-in-law) Lucia Graves (daughter) Tomás Graves (son) Richard Perceval Graves (nephew)

Related	Deià Seizin Press

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