Mythica : A New History of Homers World, Through the Women Written Out of It by Emily Hauser

Description In Mythica Emily Hauser tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the western worlds greatest legends. Following in their footsteps, digging into the history behind Homers 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. Customers Also Liked Related products Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It by Daisy Dunn Written in History: Letters that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore The Iliad by Homer (trans. by Emily Wilson) Reviews