Nausicaa, an eighth century B.C., Sicilian princess, looks back on the events of her life and tells how she came to write the epic poem known as the Odyssey.

Homer’s Daughter is a 1955 novel by British author Robert Graves, famous for I Claudius and The White Goddess.

It starts from the idea that Homer’s Odyssey was written by a princess in the Greek settlements in Sicily. The novel makes an entirely speculative reconstruction of who she was and why she wrote such a work. It has her modifying the legends that existed in her own time to partly match a crisis in her own life. The idea that a woman wrote the works of Homer was initially proposed by Samuel Butler, who developed the theory in The Authoress of the Odyssey. Graves elaborated from Butler’s theory in his novel.