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