Graves published a translation of the complete Iliad in prose (with passages of poetry) under the title The Anger of Achilles (1959) before he published The Siege and Fall of Troy. In like manner, his Greek Gods and Heroes, written for young adults, was preceded by a twovolume work, The Greek Myths, which begins with creation stories and ends with Odysseus's wanderings, and follows each of the individual stories with supplementary material of historical and anthropological interest. In Greek Gods and Heroes he introduces the Olympian and minor deities.

None of Graves's sixteen novels were written for young readers, but many of them (with mature subject matter) have been read with pleasure by older secondary students. Two are particularly relevant to Greek myth. The Golden Fleece (1944; also published as Hercules, My Shipmate) tells the story of the Argonauts in a time before the patriarchal system...