Homer's Daughter - Softcover

Robert Graves

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609807731 ISBN 13: 9781609807733

Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S., 2017

Synopsis

Robert Graves's bold and presciently feminist novel about Nausicaa, the girl he believed authored The Odyssey...

Homer's Daughter is Robert Graves's novel of the girl, Nausicaa, a character in The Odyssey, who Graves believed was a its true author (not the blind and bearded Homer, whose Iliad was composed at least 150 years before). That Homer did not write The The Odyssey continues to be a bold historical and literary claim. Add to it Graves's protofeminist heroine and a radical modern classic is born.

In his Historical Note, Graves says the novel 'recreates, from internal and external evidence, the circumstances which induced Nausicaa to write The Odyssey, and suggest how, as an honorary Daughter of Homer, she managed to get it included in the official canon.

Seven Stories' Robert Graves Project spans 14 titles, and includes fiction and non-fiction, adult, young adult and children's books, in a striking new uniform design, with new introductions and afterwords.

About this title

Review:

"A great imagination and above all a powerful intellect." --Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

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 The White Goddess, The Hebrew Myths, and Collected Poems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1609807731
• ISBN 13: 9781609807733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284