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Following Gibson’s introduction, the first five essays treat Graves’s historical fiction.

Given the tremendous variety of Graves’s literary corpus, Gibson has sensibly pursued a fairly clear division of essays according to the genres in which Graves worked. The wide range of essays covers almost every aspect of Graves’s prodigious literary career, and allows the contradictions of his persona to emerge in full: the author steeped in classical learning whose fierce iconoclasm frequently provoked antipathy or indifference from the academic community the celebrated writer of historical fiction, who, in his quasi-religious devotion to poetry, regarded his novels as mere money-spinning “potboilers” (e.g. Gibson, seeks “to energize the debate about the value of contribution” (5) to modern reception of the ancient world. Andrews and published as part of OUP’s “Classical Presences” series, the volume, in the words of its editor A. Arising out of a 2009 conference held at the University of St. While Graves is already the subject of several edited volumes, 1 the current volume is the first to be devoted exclusively to this aspect of Graves’s work. The influence of the poet, novelist, mythographer, and translator Robert Graves on the reception of classics in the 20th century is staggering.