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 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 poem
