Homer's Daughter

In HOMER'S DAUGHTER Robert Graves recreates the ODYSSEY. He bases his story on Samuel Butler's argument that the author of the ODYSSEY was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman who calls herself Nausicaa in Graves' story. "Here," he says, "is the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl who saves her father's 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."