Graves's " Tree Zodiac " includes the four cardinal points besides the twelve signs of the zodiac, resulting in a list of 16, matched to the 20 Ogham letters by attributing two letters each to winter solstice ( A / I ), Sagittarius ( B / R ), spring equinox ( O / E ) and Gemini ( D / T ):

Following her work, the idea of a matristic early Europe which had venerated such a deity was developed in books by amateur scholars such as Robert Briffault's The Mothers ( 1927 ) and Robert Graves's The White Goddess ( 1946 ).

He notes that something bad always happens to the pets in Graves's books, and when he wrote back to Pete, he seemed especially interested in spending some " quality time with the pets ," particularly Bunnicula, whom Chester has now befriended.

The fact that ordinary father-son ( or grandfather-grandson ) succession did not occur has contributed to the image of the Julio-Claudian court presented in Robert Graves's I, Claudius, a dangerous world where scheming family members were all too ready to murder the direct heirs so as to bring themselves, their own immediate families, or their lovers closer to the succession.

Michael W. Pharand, though quoting earlier criticisms, rebutted, " Graves's theories and conclusions, outlandish as they seemed to his contemporaries ( or may appear to us ), were the result of careful observation.

These elements may have derived from her reading of Robert Graves's book The White Goddess and of the writings of Gerald Gardner, with whom Margaret and her husband were put in touch by Raymond Buckland.

In 1944 and 1945 drafts of Robert Graves's The White Goddess were published in Keidrych Rhys's periodical, Wales.

They were later convinced to name it after Graves's dog, a yellow Labrador, " Raising Cane ," called " Cane " for short.

The Golden Bough ( 1922, but begun in 1890 ), an early anthropological study by Sir James George Frazer, is the starting point for much of Graves's argument, and Graves thought in part that his book made explicit what Frazer only hinted at.

Graves's value as a poet aside, flaws in his scholarship such as poor philology, misdating texts ( for example, the Hanes Taliesin a 16th-18th century text which Graves believed originated centuries earlier ), and use of out-dated archeology have been criticised.

Her long career has included many films and television programmes, but she is probably best known for starring as Livia in the popular BBC adaptation of Robert Graves's novel, I, Claudius ( BBC2, 1976 ), for which she won the 1977 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress, and for many appearances on the original run of Call My Bluff.

The away-team finds that the request for medical assistance was made by Kareen without Dr. Graves's knowledge, and though resentful, allows for Dr. Selar to examine him.

In the television adaptation of Graves's novels, he is portrayed in a brief appearance by Peter Bowles.

Macro was played by John Rhys-Davies in the 1976 BBC TV adaptation of Robert Graves's book I, Claudius and by Guido Mannari in Caligula.

While Graves's " Celtic Astrology " has been popularized by some New Age authors, his " Tree Calendar " has no relation to any historical Celtic calendar.

* In Robert Graves's novel King Jesus, Pilate is an unscrupulous opportunist who tries to prevent Jesus ' death by convincing Jesus to become the King of the Jews ( in reality a puppet monarch of Rome ) because, in the novel, Jesus is the son of Mary, who is of a royal Jewish line and the daughter of the last Hasmonean and Antipater, the son of Herod the Great.

He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius ( with Charles Laughton ); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess ( played by Bette Davis ) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison ; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe ( with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor ).

However, Graves's history has been criticized by at least one modern historian.

Although Graves's work is widely discounted by academics as pseudohistory ( see The White Goddess # Criticism and The Greek Myths # Reception ), it continues to have a lasting influence on many areas of Neopaganism.

*" Utopian and Fantastic Dualities in Robert Graves's Watch the North Wind Rise " by Robert H. Canary in Science Fiction Studies, Fall 1974

After the War Roberts was the dedicatee of Robert Graves's The White Goddess in its first edition ( 1948 ), having provided much of the Welsh material used by him.

Graves's Caligula commits incest with all three of his sisters and is implied to have murdered Drusilla.

By Robert Graves's definition, a religion's traditional stories are " myths " if and only if one does not belong to the religion in question.

The letters form part of Graves's bequest to St. John's College, Oxford.

The title may also point to the passing of an old order following the cataclysm of the First World War ; the inadequacies of patriotism, the rise of atheism, feminism, socialism and pacifism, the changes to traditional married life, and not least the emergence of new styles of literary expression, are all treated in the work, bearing as they did directly on Graves's life.

After mourning his death, Graves's family received word from him that he still lived, and put an announcement to that effect in the newspapers.

Pollio makes a cameo appearance in Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius, where he discusses the ethics of writing history with young Claudius and Titus Livy.

Graves's The White Goddess deals with goddess worship as the prototypical religion, analyzing it largely from literary evidence, in myth and poetry.

Visual iconography was also important to Graves's conception.

The White Goddess has been seen as a poetic work where Graves gives his notion of man's subjection to women in love an " anthropological grandeur " and further mythologises all women in general ( and several of Graves's lovers in specific ) into a three-faced moon goddess model.

* Graves and the Goddess: Essays on Robert Graves's The White Goddess, ed.

As one of Kentucky's largest counties, Graves's history of legends and leaders includes a US Vice President, four US Congressmen, famous and infamous heroes, singers and songwriters, noted writers and a legacy of historic sites.

The female characters are quite powerful, as in Graves's other works.

They are probably Graves's best known work aside from his myth essay The White Goddess, his English translation of The Golden Ass and his own autobiography Goodbye to All That.

A. E. van Vogt wrote a novel, Empire of the Atom, which is a wholesale translation of Graves's novel into science fiction.

There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

The two Governments shall have the right at all reasonable times to examine such books and records and all other documents, correspondence, memoranda and other records involving transactions relating to agreed projects.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

One or two were writers of books ; ;

Kaijser has published two books in Swedish: Stadens ljus.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

The two existing books are now out-of-print, but they have been made available as PDF downloads.

His experience there was turned into two books: Records of a School and Conversations with Children on the Gospels.

His first discussions of animism appear in his two 1994 books: his novel, The Story of B, and his autobiography, Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest.

He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.

Dürer succeeded in producing two books during his lifetime.

In February 1903, two followers of Muhammad ` Alí, including Badi ' u ' llah and Siyyid ` Aliy-i-Afnan, broke with Muhammad ` Ali and wrote books and letters giving details of Muhammad ` Ali's plots and noting that what was circulating about ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was fabrication.

Two poems in the Poetic Edda and two books in the Prose Edda provide information about the bridge:

The two Books of Samuel () are part of a series of historical books ( Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings ) that make up a theological history of the Israelites and affirm and explain God's law for Israel under the guidance of the prophets.

The Book ( s ) of Kings (-the two books were originally one ) presents a narrative history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, a period of some 400 years ( c. 960-560 BCE ).

The Greek Orthodox branch of Christianity continues to use the Greek translation ( the Septuagint ), but when a Latin translation ( called the Vulgate ) was made for the Western church, Kingdoms was first retitled the Book of Kings, parts One to Four, and eventually both Kings and Samuel were separated into two books each.

He is specifically mentioned by Ben Sirah ( a writer of the Hellenistic period who listed the " great sages " of Israel ) and 4 Maccabees ( 1st century CE ), and by the 1st century CE historian Josephus, says that the prophet wrote two books.

His was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being Rites of Passage by William Golding.

Working with Norman Warne as her editor, Potter published two or three little books each year for a total of twenty-three books.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

One problem with this encode-transmit-receive-decode model is that the processes of encoding and decoding imply that the sender and receiver each possess something that functions as a codebook, and that these two code books are, at the very least, similar if not identical.