Emily Hauser for Mythica

Who were the real women behind the myths of the Trojan War? Now award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the women behind ancient Greece's greatest legends - and the true heroes of ancient epics like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

In Mythica, Emily Hauser tells the extraordinary stories of the women behind some of the western world's greatest legends. Following in their footsteps and digging into the history behind Homer's epic poems, Hauser reveals who these women - queens, mothers, warriors, slaves - were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not - until now) remembered them.

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 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.