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Original Title:	Homer's Daughter
ISBN:	0897330595 (ISBN13: 9780897330596)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Nausicaa, Alpheides, Laodamas, Aethon, Ctimene, Mentor, Clytoneus, Eurymachus
Setting:	Greece

Homer's Daughter

Robert Graves

Paperback | Pages: 283 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 628 Users | 70 Reviews

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Title	:	Homer's Daughter
Author	:	Robert Graves
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 283 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2005 by Academy Chicago Publishers (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Literature. Cultural. Greece. Retellings

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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 of getting rid of them. Luckily, she is quick-witted and resourceful in facing her conundrum. She also has a knack for poetry and has a bard in her debt who happens to be a Son of Homer. With these advantages, she is able to ensure that her words, if not her name (at least not as authoress), live on for eternity.

After a rocky start explaining the origins of all the regional tribes and Nausicaa’s ancestry in excessive detail, Graves finds his rhythm in this clever and witty story. It’s fun seeing what he comes up with to explain various elements of the Odyssey as envisioned by Nausicaa. The writing captures the style of the original Iliad and Odyssey perfectly, complete with over-the-top declamations, implausible feats, and gross-out violence. This is fan fiction, but it’s the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox.

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Ratings: 3.82 From 628 Users | 70 Reviews

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Reads like it's supposed to -- of the ancient classics genre. Of course, that also makes it snobby as hell and the characters rather unlikable by modern standards. But I like classics anyway :p

I had a hard time getting into this book. The first half is tiresome and I almost gave up on it but then in the second half the plot picks up and the writing improves. In the end I would say that I do recommend this book, though with a warning about its slow start.

I was hoping for so much more from this book! A distinguished writer, an amazing plot, placed in a well-pictured historical reality... and yet the book is barely enjoyable. The writing is dry, the dialogues artificial. Who talks about types of cheese they've been served when referring a tremendously urgent matter of life and death in a hurry?

Robert Graves, best known for I, Claudius, uses Samuel Butlers theory that The Odyssey was actually written by a Sicilian woman as the inspiration for the novel Homers Daughter. Nausicaa, daughter of an Elyman king, faces a host of unwelcome suitors while the king is away and has to devise a means of getting rid of them. Luckily, she is quick-witted and resourceful in facing her conundrum. She also has a knack for poetry and has a bard in her debt who happens to be a Son of Homer. With these

Not quite up to "I, Claudius", but an interesting idea and good heroine.

Liked it a lot, but not as much as Claudius. I must reread it.

Only let Eurymachus ask for another bath!" she cried. "I'll take net and axe and butcher him, as Clytaemnestra butchered Agamemnon. My heart growls in my breast like a bitch with puppies when a stranger approaches.