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Mythica
A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
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Award-winning classicist, ancient historian, and author Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey through the latest archaeological discoveries and DNA secrets of the Aegean Bronze Age, as she uncovers the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece's greatest legends—and the real heroes...
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Award-winning classicist, ancient historian, and author Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey through the latest archaeological discoveries and DNA secrets of the Aegean Bronze Age, as she uncovers the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece's greatest legends—and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Mythica offers a riveting new history of the Bronze Age Aegean and a journey through Homer's epics charted entirely by women—from Helen of Troy, Briseis, Cassandra, and Aphrodite to Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso, and Penelope. This is a ground-breaking reassessment of the reality behind the often-mythologized women of Greece's greatest epics and of the ancient world itself, as we learn ever more about it.
Contrary to perceptions built up over three millennia, ancient history is not all about men—and it's not only men's stories that deserve to be told.
In Mythica, Emily Hauser tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the western world's greatest legends. Following in their footsteps, digging into the history behind Homer's epic poems, piecing together evidence from the original texts, recent astonishing archaeological finds, and the latest DNA studies, she reveals who these women—queens, mothers, warriors, slaves—were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not—until now) remembered them.
'Bold and intellectually thrilling... blending history and science, rigorous scholarship and dazzling feats of imagination.' — TOM HOLLAND, historian and co-host of 'The Rest is History' podcast
'Absolutely blew me away... rich, evocative and original work... this book is quite wonderful.' — ELODIE HARPER, author of The Wolf Den
'Offers a dazzling new way of thinking about the ancient world... a wonderful, beautifully written, and important book.' — DAN JONES, author of Henry V
'A book the world has been waiting for... I loved it.' — BETTANY HUGHES, author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529932492
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Doubleday
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 40.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 635g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Dr Emily Hauser is an award-winning classicist and historian and the author of an acclaimed trilogy of novels retelling the stories of women of Greek myth, For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner and For the Immortal. She read Classics at Cambridge, where she received a double first with distinction and won the Chancellor's Medal for Classical Proficiency. She has a PhD in Classics from Yale, and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is now a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, and teaches and researches on women's writing, ancient and modern. Her recent publications include How Women Became Poets- A Gender History of Greek Literature and a book for younger readers - Ancient Love Stories, illustrated by Sander Berg. Emily Hauser lives in Exeter.
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