MYTHICA

Did you love Madeline Miller s Circe Pat Barker s The Silence of the Girls Jennifer Saint s Elektra Natalie Haynes A Thousand Ships But did you ever wonder who the real women behind the myths of the Trojan War were Now award winning classicist and ancient historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover 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 Because 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 A riveting new history of the Bronze Age Aegean and a journey through Homer s epics charted entirely by women from Helen of Troy B