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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Hauser, Hauser Emily
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9781804992791
• ISBN: 978-1-80499-279-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; prehistory, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Women, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient History, Gender studies: women, Archaeology by period / region, bronze age, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Prehistoric archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, c 1000 to c 500 BCE