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."