This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths.
This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths.
A. G. G. Gibson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Classics at the University of St. Andrews.
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* Introduction * 1: Andrew Bennett: 'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves' Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction * 2: Duncan Kennedy and Ellen O'Gorman: Claudius in the Library * 3: Sheila Murnaghan: Homer's Daughter: Graves' Vera Historia * 4: Shaun Tougher: Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius - Genesis, Gender, and Truth * 5: Jon Coulston: Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World * 6: Sonia Sabnis: The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior * 7: Philip Burton: 'Essentially a moral problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Tradition * 8: Sibylle Ihm: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths and Matriarchy * 9: Vanda Zajko: Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths * 10: Isobel Hurst: Freedom to Invent: Graves' Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity * 11: John Burnside: Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves * 12: Tom Palaima: Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance * 13: Jonathan Perry: 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves' Augustus in Mussolini's Italy * 14: A. G. G. Gibson: Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I, Claudius * 15: Mick Morris: Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and the Mass Media * 16: Amanda Wrigley: The Anger of Achilles (1964): A Prize-Winning 'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves * Bibliography * Index
* Introduction * 1: Andrew Bennett: 'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves' Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction * 2: Duncan Kennedy and Ellen O'Gorman: Claudius in the Library * 3: Sheila Murnaghan: Homer's Daughter: Graves' Vera Historia * 4: Shaun Tougher: Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius - Genesis, Gender, and Truth * 5: Jon Coulston: Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World * 6: Sonia Sabnis: The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior * 7: Philip Burton: 'Essentially a moral problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Tradition * 8: Sibylle Ihm: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths and Matriarchy * 9: Vanda Zajko: Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths * 10: Isobel Hurst: Freedom to Invent: Graves' Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity * 11: John Burnside: Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves * 12: Tom Palaima: Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance * 13: Jonathan Perry: 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves' Augustus in Mussolini's Italy * 14: A. G. G. Gibson: Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I, Claudius * 15: Mick Morris: Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and the Mass Media * 16: Amanda Wrigley: The Anger of Achilles (1964): A Prize-Winning 'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves * Bibliography * Index
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