[Celtjew Libertarian]

The very late Samuel Butler was of the opinion that the Odyssey was written by a woman. Since it is really just a romance novel from ancient times, I find that plausible. So did the late (and probably better known) Robert Graves. Butler's view was that a princess living on or near Sicily (in one of the "Greater Greece" colonies wrote the Odyssey and used various sites and sights familiar to her from her surroundings to cook up the various trials and tribulations of Odysseus.

Graves's wrote a novel, Homer's Daughter, that proposes that Nausicaa was the author of The Odyssey, basing it on events from her life.

When I reviewed it for a website, seven years ago, I give is a middling review. "This a well-crafted novel, but weak characterizations and lack of any real surprise keep it from being anything special," was how I summarized it. I'm wondering now, how much that was just that it didn't quite measure up to I, Claudius.

[nopardons]

Oh my goodness...someone else that book? :-)

I read many decades ago, when I was a preteen and had bought it for 19 cents, in a remainder bin. It's a first edition and I loved it; however, I was all of 11 or 12 when I read it. LOL