![]() ![]() The Fifth Labour: The Stables Of Augeias 128. The Fourth Labour: The Eryminthian Boar 127. The Third Labour: The Ceryneian Hind 126. ![]() The Second Labour: The Lernaean Hydra 125. Births Of Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, And Dionysus 15. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1962. ![]() He has translated Apuleius, Lucan, and Svetonius for the Penguin Classics. His two most discussed non-fiction books are The White Goddess, which presents a new view of the poetic impulse, and The Nazarene Gospel Restored (with Joshua Podro), a re-examination of primitive Christianity. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That (a Penguin Modem Classic), in 1929. ![]() Apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926 he has since earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels which include: I, Claudius Claudius the God Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth Count Belisarius Wife to Mr Milton (all published as Penguins) Proceed, Sergeant Lamb The Golden Fleece They Hanged My Saintly Billy and The Isles of Unwisdom. His principal calling is poetry, and his Selected Poems have been published in the Penguin Poets. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Robert Graves was born in 1895 at Wimbledon, son of Alfred Perceval Graves, the Irish writer, and Amalia von Ranke. Robert Graves – The Greek Myths 1955, revised 1960 ![]()
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