{"product_id":"mythica-1","title":"Mythica: The Bestselling Story of the Real Women of the Iliad and Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE INSTANT \u003cem\u003eTIMES \u003c\/em\u003eBESTSELLER • 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 the epic poems, Homer's \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMythica,\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA riveting new history of the Bronze Age Aegean and a journey through Homer’s epics charted entirely by women – from Helen of Troy, Briseis, Cassandra and Aphrodite to Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso and Penelope – \u003cem\u003eMythica\u003c\/em\u003e is a ground-breaking reassessment of the reality behind the often-mythologised women of Greece’s greatest epics, and of the ancient world itself as we learn ever more about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr 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, \u003cem\u003eFor the Most Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFor the Winner\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFor the Immortal\u003c\/em\u003e. She read Classics at Cambridge, where she received a double first with distinction and won the Chancellor's Medal for Classical Proficiency. She has a PhD in Classics from Yale, and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47636587643037,"sku":"9781804992791","price":89.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9781804992791.jpg?v=1773805406","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/mythica-1","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}