Robert Graves popularised the triad of " Maiden " ( or " Virgin "), " Mother " and " Crone ", and while this idea did not rest on sound scholarship, his poetic inspiration has gained a tenacious hold.

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.

Graves did not invent this picture but drew from nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship.

Robert Graves popularized the triad of " Maiden " ( or " Virgin "), " Mother " and " Crone ", and while this idea did not rest on sound scholarship, his poetic inspiration has gained a tenacious hold.

Graves ' retellings have been widely praised as imaginative and poetic, but the scholarship behind his hypotheses and conclusions is rejected as idiosyncratic and untenable.

Brian Flemming, director of Christ myth theory documentary The God Who Wasn't There, has cautioned against using Graves as a source due to his lack of scholarship and unreliability of his claims.

He received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Ray Graves ' Florida Gators football team from 1964 to 1966.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

In 1943 he married Ethelwyn Edith Graves ( born 1915 ), a nurse tutor at Middlesex Hospital, with whom he was to have two children.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

Flint was still used from sources such as Grimes Graves but from many other mines across Europe.

In some accounts, Hermes fathered Pan upon Dryope, daughter of Dryops, for whom he was tending kine, but according to 20th century author Robert Graves ( 1960 ), Pan was far older than Hermes.

The Graves ' disease was named after Irish doctor Robert James Graves, who described a case of goiter with exophthalmos in 1835.

John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.

John Graves Simcoe was the only surviving son of John and Katherine Simcoe ; although his parents had four children, he was the only one to live past childhood.

Simcoe's godfather was British admiral Samuel Graves.

Graves also says that Rushton misrepresented the sources for the biological data he gathered in support of his hypothesis, and that much of his social science data was collected by dubious means.

John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governor in 1793.

From the 1960s onwards Milligan was a regular correspondent with Robert Graves.

The statistics tabulated by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission are representative of the number of names commemorated for all servicemen / women of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth and former UK Dependencies, whose death was attributable to their war service.

" Another 1929 book reflecting on World War I was Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, as well as Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves.

The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.

When Hood arrived at New York, he found that Graves was in port ( having failed to intercept the convoy ), but had only five ships of the line that were ready for battle.

Graves was also concerned about some ships in his own fleet ; Europe in particular had difficulty manoeuvring.

Graves hoisted two signals: one for " line ahead ", under which the ships would slowly close the gap and then straighten the line when parallel to the enemy, and one for " close action ", which normally indicated that ships should turn to directly approach the enemy line, turning when the appropriate distance was reached.

Strongly influenced by the New Wave sound of 1980s bands XTC, The Clash, and Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the new lineup, with Steve on vocals, quickly released a series of 7 " singles and toured extensively in Canada and the American Pacific Northwest, joining up with similarly-styled indie rock bands such as Les Savy Fav, The French Kicks, Radio 4, Ima Robot, and Pretty Girls Make Graves, and opening for established Canadian rockers Sloan on a national tour.

Hilda Ellis Davidson criticized Graves as having " misled many innocent readers with his eloquent but deceptive statements about a nebulous goddess in early Celtic literature ", and stated that he was " no authority " on the subject matter he presented.

Historian Richard Carrier, a proponent of the Jesus myth hypothesis, has heavily criticized Graves ' work, particularly his book The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, as being unreliable and unscholarly.

Kelly also appeared on The Daily Show in a correspondent piece by Ed Helms entitled " The Clash " in which he criticized Michale Graves for being a Republican.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre writer / creator Kim Henkel cited " A Modest Proposal " as an influence in scripting his 2011 horror film " Boneboys ," directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks.

Included among the latter are the area's five premier cru ( first growth ) red wines ( four from Médoc and one, Château Haut-Brion, from Graves ), established by the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855:

The best known fictional representation of the Emperor Claudius were the books I, Claudius and Claudius the God ( published in 1934 and 1935 ) by Robert Graves, both written in the first-person to give the reader the impression that they are Claudius ' autobiography.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.

As a side note, it appears instructions that would confirm the notch's mythical use were issued at least unofficially by the Graves Registration Service during the Vietnam War to Army troops headed overseas.

* Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius is written as a recently-discovered autobiography penned by the late Emperor.

The Goddess is often portrayed with strong lunar symbolism, drawing on various cultures and deities such as Diana, Hecate, and Isis, and is often depicted as the Maiden, Mother and Crone triad popularised by Robert Graves ( see Triple Goddess below ).

Neither of these ocular signs should be confused with exophthalmos ( protrusion of the eyeball ), which occurs specifically and uniquely in hyperthyroidism caused by Graves ' disease ( note that not all exopthalmos is caused by Graves ' disease, but when present with hyperthyroidism is diagnostic of Graves ' disease ).

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

Statue of John Graves Simcoe first Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario | Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada by Walter Seymour Allward 1903 Queen's Park ( Toronto )

Voight played the role of spymaster James Phelps, a role originated by Peter Graves in the television series.

This myth is construed by Robert Graves and others as reflecting a clash between the inhabitants during Mycenaean times and newer immigrants.

CMD's executive director, Lisa Graves ( a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U. S. Department of Justice ), has testified several times before Congress on national security, homeland security, and civil liberties issues, joined in legal briefs on such issues, and her analysis has been published by the Texas Law Review and in numerous other articles.

The 1967 translation of the Rubáiyat by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah, however, created a scandal.

In some versions of the quest for the Golden Fleece, for instance that published by Robert Graves in 1944, Atalanta sailed with the Argonauts as the only female among them.