Mythica - A New History of Homer's World, Through the Women Written Out of It

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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Hauser, Hauser Emily
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781529932492
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-3249-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 235 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; Poetry, prehistory, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Women, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, bronze age, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, c 1000 to c 500 BCE