 Graves created a methodology for reading images he called "iconotropy".To practice this methodology one is required to reduce "speech into its original images and rhythms" and then to combine these "on several simultaneous levels of thought".By applying this methodology Graves decoded a woodcut of "The Judgement of Paris" as depicting a singular Triple Goddess rather than the traditional Hera, Athena and Aphrodite of the narrative the image illustrates.