The Real Women Behind the Greek Myths with Emily Hauser

Contrary to perceptions built up over three millennia, ancient history is not all about men. Join bestselling classicist and historian Emily Hauser for an epic journey to discover the extraordinary stories of the real Bronze Age women – from Briseis and Penelope to the Amazons – behind some of the western world’s greatest legends.

Piecing together evidence from Homer’s original texts as well as astonishing archaeological finds and the latest DNA studies, Emily presents a groundbreaking reassessment of who these women – queens, mothers, warriors, slaves – were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not – until now) remembered them.

‘Bold and intellectually thrilling . . . blending history and science, rigorous scholarship and dazzling feats of imagination’ Tom Holland

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