Homer's Daughter

Homer's Daughter is a 1955 novel by British author Robert Graves, famous for I, Claudius and The White Goddess.

The novel starts from the idea that Homer's Odyssey was written by a princess in the Greek settlements in Sicily.

It has her modifying the legends that existed in her own time to partly match a crisis in her own life.

The idea that a woman wrote the works of Homer was initially proposed by Samuel Butler, who developed the theory in The Authoress of the Odyssey.

Homer's Daughter is not as famous as the Claudius novels, but has its admirers.