H. J. Rose, agreeing with several of the above critics, questions the scholarship of the retellings. Graves presents "The Greek Myths" as an updating of William Smith's "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology" (originally published 1844), which Graves calls "the standard work in English", never brought up to date; Rose is dismayed to find no sign that Graves had heard of the "Oxford Classical Dictionary" or any of the "various compendia of mythology, written in, or translated into, our tongue since 1844". Rose finds many omissions and some clear errors, most seriously Graves's ascribing to Sophocles the argument of his "Ajax" (Graves §168.4); this evaluation has been repeated by other critics since.