Table of Contents

A. G. G. Gibson: 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

About the Author

A. G. G. Gibson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Classics at the University of St. Andrews.

Reviews

it is the company's ultimate resistance to the lures of myth that we should admire in A. G. G. Gibson's production, as we await the next scholarly reply.
*Francesca Middleton, Times Literary Supplement*

a wealth of information, and fascinating insights into many different aspects of the presence of the classical world in Graves' oeuvre, and its context. Further specific connections will be encouraged by its useful index.
*Penelope Wilson, Translation and Literature*