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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.
This book is one of the most thought provoking I have read in a very long time . . . it absolutely blew me away. It is such a rich, evocative and original work . . . it's just breathtaking . . . If you are interested in the ancient world I truly cannot recommend Mythica highly enough. I would go so far as to say you HAVE to read it - this book is quite wonderful. * ELODIE HARPER, bestselling author of The Wolf Den * From the shadowy recesses of myth and epic poetry, step forth a host of women who once lived: mothers, daughters, wives, weavers, witches, slaves, queens and warriors. These women surface in Homer's stories, but Dr Hauser puts flesh on their bones, finding a window to the past that allows us to imagine the true depth and breadth of their experiences . . . a stirring, enlightening and fascinating exploration. -- JENNIFER SAINT, bestselling author of Ariadne and Hera Vividly brings the women of the Bronze Age to life, with a winning combination of sparkling, energetic writing and meticulous research into the archaeology of the time. -- TIM WHITMARSH, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge and author of Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World Emily Hauser spotlights the fundamental contradiction in ancient epic: the stories rely on female protagonists but rarely put them centre stage to tell their stories in their own words. This book offers a brilliant riposte to that millennia-old dilemma . . . their stories are fascinating, enthralling and insightful – and help to recolour the world of epic for us for good! -- MICHAEL SCOTT, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick University and author of X Marks the Spot A masterpiece. Emily Hauser . . . awakens in us a sense of wonder as these mythologized women come to life in stories that are woven into the fabric of Homeric poetry . . . shows us Homer in a new light: in a world inhabited by women uneclipsed by men. -- GREGORY NAGY, Professor of Classics at Harvard University Someone once wrote that the world of Homer is immortal precisely because it never existed - except in the poetic imagination: a thought that award-winning classicist and novelist Dr Emily Hauser exploits and explores brilliantly in her 18 character-sketches of ancient females both divine and human, both Greek and non-Greek . . . she writes her women subjects back in to a dominantly masculinist literary and visual tradition. -- PAUL CARTLEDGE, Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University ‘A timely reminder of how much has been left out of traditional myth and storytelling . . . Hauser has given her readers two gifts: first, by helping us listen carefully to the details already present in ancient myths, she helps us learn to read the past better; second, by recuperating the story lives of so many famous characters, she restores fullness to our own engagement with the past. -- JOEL CHRISTENSEN, Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University
