Mythica

 
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 the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the Western world's greatest legends.