Homers Daughter by Robert Graves Paperback Book 9780141197661

In Homers Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausica In Robert Gravess words Homers Daughter is the story of a highspirited and religiousminded Sicilian girl who saves her fathers throne from usurpation herself from a distasteful marriage and her two younger brothers from butchery by boldly making things happen instead of sitting still and hoping for the best