Robert Graves
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Sep 15, 2026
GillespieHOST
Sí.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Y recuerdo aquel extraordinario comienzo de una novela de Robert Graves que se llama En busca del vellocino de oro, creo que se llama.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Casualmente, empieza en un lugar equivocado, porque el vellocino de oro había que ir a buscarlo, había, había que irlo a buscar bien al este, allá en Cólquide.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Y la novela empieza con unos marineros griegos que están cerca de las columnas de Hércules, cerca de Gibraltar-
Irisanya MoonGUEST
So we can't group her under maiden mother crone.
Irisanya MoonGUEST
Because also Robert Graves did that.
Irisanya MoonGUEST
Right.
Emily MorrisonHOST
No,
TristanHOST
[fire crackling] [seagulls squawking] [piano note] Hello, and welcome to Homer's Odyssey, a podcast where for each episode we read a book of The Odyssey and pair that book with something else.
TristanHOST
For this episode, we're reading book six of The Odyssey, and Robert Graves' 1955 novel, Homer's Daughter.
TristanHOST
This is Tristan with an additional message.
TristanHOST
Uh, I apologize for the audio quality in this episode.
TristanHOST
That's unusual.
TristanHOST
The other thing that's unusual is that for this episode we didn't read a work of scholarship, at least not one directly.
TristanHOST
We instead read a novel, uh, by one Robert Graves called Homer's Daughter.
TristanHOST
The reason why we chose that novel will become clear pretty soon.
Madeleine MilburnGUEST
I just remember being totally in awe of the estates that they represented, from H.G. Wells, W.
Madeleine MilburnGUEST
B. Yeats, um, Robert Graves, and, uh, it was just this, a mass of incredible kind of literary fiction.
Madeleine MilburnGUEST
Um, so, no, I don't actually know that story, uh, but I felt very privileged to be there.
Madeleine MilburnGUEST
Um, but on top, I'm just going back to the assistant duties with the rights team.
speaker_2HOST
And there's an important disclaimer here because we don't have evidence that ancient Celtic people were actually using this 13-month calendar or assigning personality traits based on which tree month someone was born under.
speaker_2HOST
The calendar in the form we're using was popularized by Robert Graves in the 20th century, but the Ogham alphabet and the sacred Celtic trees are ancient.
speaker_2HOST
Many of the letter and tree associations come from medieval Irish manuscripts, and the plants themselves have centuries of mythology, folklore, medicine, food ways, and magical traditions associated to them.
speaker_2HOST
So this series is really our opportunity to untangle all of that.
Chris JohnsHOST
And I'm not sure there is any evidence for it, but the, it, it's a story that appears in a lot of movies and a lot of books, absolutely.
Chris JohnsHOST
Robert Graves-
Jim PowerHOST
Yeah.
Jim PowerHOST
I, I, I-
Jim PowerHOST
Yeah
Chris JohnsHOST
... including stories about Caligula.
Chris JohnsHOST
And Robert Graves, who wrote the I, Claudius books, there were two, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, um, based his novels on Suetonius' biography of the 12 Caesars.
Chris JohnsHOST
And modern, and indeed not so modern historians reckon an awful lot of the stuff that was in Suetonius was completely bogus, made up, and that Robert Graves embellished it even more to write his bestsellers, which became that fantastic Um, t-TV series.
BeauHOST
The Teutoburg Forest, yeah.
BeauHOST
Has anyone ever seen Derek Jacoby's I, Claudius? Well, Robert Graves' I, Claudius.
BeauHOST
With Derek Jacoby as Claudius.
BeauHOST
And Brian Blessed as Augustus.
Robby SoaveHOST
I completely agree with that.
Christian BritschgiHOST
There is an interesting – did you ever watch the show I, Claudius on BBC based off the Robert Graves novel about like Roman emperors or whatever? But there's a conversation between two of Claudius' like advisors, right? Yeah.
Christian BritschgiHOST
And one is opposing building a new port because it'll mean cheaper grain is getting into the city and he has interests in the grain trade.
Christian BritschgiHOST
And so he would lose money.
Giles BrownHOST
Now...
Giles BrownHOST
And talking about sort of the rich and the famous, of course, at the meantime, your uncle's, you know, is becoming, this must have been a bit of an embarrassment, I suppose, or were you proud? I mean, how does one handle having an uncle such as Robert Graves? Was he a professor of poetry at Oxford at this point?
Richard Perceval GravesGUEST
He was, yes.
Richard Perceval GravesGUEST
But in fact, it was really, I should never have been sent to Charlehouse.
Rei VardiGUEST
Everybody should read...
Rei VardiGUEST
I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
Rei VardiGUEST
It's a book that was written in the 60s.
Rei VardiGUEST
It depicts the lives of the four first Roman Caesars.
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