Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition

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

Introduction ; 1. 'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves' Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction ; 2. Claudius in the Library ; 3. Homer's Daughter: Graves' Vera Historia ; 4. Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius - Genesis, Gender, and Truth ; 5. Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World ; 6. The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior ; 7. 'Essentially a moral problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Tradition ; 8. Robert Graves' The Greek Myths and Matriarchy ; 9. Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths ; 10. Freedom to Invent: Graves' Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity ; 11. Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves ; 12. Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance ; 13. 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves' Augustus in Mussolini's Italy ; 14. Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I, Claudius ; 15. Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and the Mass Media ; 16. The Anger of Achilles (1964): A Prize-Winning 'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves ; Bibliography ; Index