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Penelope’s Bones

A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It

by Emily Hauser ...

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores ... Read more

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Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores
... Read more

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Women Creating Classics

A Retrospective

Edited by Dr Emily Hauser, Helena Taylor ...

**From Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (2011) to Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (2024),there has been a huge rise in women's rewritings of ancient myths and texts in recent years.**Women writers are looking back to the classical past more than ever before, and there is serious public interest in women's reworkings of the ancient world. But at the same time, this is nothing new: women have ... Read more

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**From Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (2011) to Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (2024),there has been a huge rise in women's rewritings of ancient myths and texts in recent years.**Women writers are looking back to the classical past more than ever before, and there is serious public interest in women's reworkings of the ancient world. But at the same time, this is nothing new: women have
... Read more
Women Re-Creating Classics

Contemporary Voices

Edited by Dr Emily Hauser, Helena Taylor ...

In the last few years, there has been a major and unmissable surge in women's retellings and re-creations of ancient myths and texts that has put women's re-creations of Classics centre-stage. Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of creative and scholarly voices, this volume asks why classical creative retellings by women are so popular now-and considers what creativity can do to foster new ... Read more

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In the last few years, there has been a major and unmissable surge in women's retellings and re-creations of ancient myths and texts that has put women's re-creations of Classics centre-stage. Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of creative and scholarly voices, this volume asks why classical creative retellings by women are so popular now-and considers what creativity can do to foster new
... Read more
How Women Became Poets

A Gender History of Greek Literature

by Emily Hauser ...

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or “singer-man.” The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who she was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek ... Read more

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How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or “singer-man.” The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who she was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek
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For the Most Beautiful

by Emily Hauser ...

Three thousand years ago a war took place where legends were born: Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. Both men were made and destroyed by the war that shook the foundations of the ancient world.But what if there was more to the tale of these heroes than we know? How would the Trojan War have looked as seen through the eyes of its women? Krisayis, the ambitious, ... Read more

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Three thousand years ago a war took place where legends were born: Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. Both men were made and destroyed by the war that shook the foundations of the ancient world.But what if there was more to the tale of these heroes than we know? How would the Trojan War have looked as seen through the eyes of its women? Krisayis, the ambitious,
... Read more
For the Winner

by Emily Hauser ...

When the king of Pagasae left his infant daughter on the slopes of a mountain to die, he believed he would never see her again. But Atalanta, against the will of the gods and the dictates of the Fates, survived—and went on to bring to life one of the greatest legends of all of ancient Greece . . .Teaching herself to hunt and fight, Atalanta is determined to prove her worth to her father and, ... Read more

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When the king of Pagasae left his infant daughter on the slopes of a mountain to die, he believed he would never see her again. But Atalanta, against the will of the gods and the dictates of the Fates, survived—and went on to bring to life one of the greatest legends of all of ancient Greece . . .Teaching herself to hunt and fight, Atalanta is determined to prove her worth to her father and,
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Penelope’s Bones

A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It

by Emily Hauser ...

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Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey**.**Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scor ... Read more

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Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey**.**Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scor
... Read more

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Reading Poetry, Writing Genre

English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship

Edited by Professor Silvio Bär, Dr Emily Hauser ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. “Genre” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, ... Read more

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This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. “Genre” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism,
... Read more

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Andromeda

An electric reclaiming of the most famed, white-washed woman in Greek mythology

by E.S. McLeod ...

Narrated by E.S. McLeod, Phoebe Campbell ...

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10 hours 2 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Blessed by the gods with unparalleled beauty, Andromeda lives a life of ease within her Aethiopian palace walls. Content with her sanctuary, the young princess has no concerns other than the royal expectations her parents have for her – until a single, fateful proclamation changes everything.When the queen defies the gods with a blasphemous claim, Poseidon, fearsome God ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Blessed by the gods with unparalleled beauty, Andromeda lives a life of ease within her Aethiopian palace walls. Content with her sanctuary, the young princess has no concerns other than the royal expectations her parents have for her – until a single, fateful proclamation changes everything.When the queen defies the gods with a blasphemous claim, Poseidon, fearsome God
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Andromeda

An electric reclaiming of the most famed, white-washed woman in Greek mythology

by E.S. McLeod ...

'Stole my heart' Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne**'This is a hymn to women. It is imperative that you read it'** Samantha Shannon, internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season series 'A tender yet fierce reclamation of myth crafted by a masterful hand' Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen**'Utterly exquisite... n... ... Read more

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'Stole my heart' Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne**'This is a hymn to women. It is imperative that you read it'** Samantha Shannon, internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season series 'A tender yet fierce reclamation of myth crafted by a masterful hand' Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen**'Utterly exquisite... n...
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The Sleep Room

A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him

by Jon Stock ...

Narrated by Richard Armitage, Celia Imrie, Antonia Beamish ...

Unabridged

11 hours 47 min

The Sleep Room is thriller novelist Jon Stock's investigation into one of the most revered figures in British postwar medicine, the private world of the Sleep Room in Ward Five, and the science of the psychology that produced it.Dr. William Sargant ran a lucrative private practice and published multiple books on psychiatry, and he was awarded the Starkey medal and prize by the Royal Society of ... Read more

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The Sleep Room is thriller novelist Jon Stock's investigation into one of the most revered figures in British postwar medicine, the private world of the Sleep Room in Ward Five, and the science of the psychology that produced it.Dr. William Sargant ran a lucrative private practice and published multiple books on psychiatry, and he was awarded the Starkey medal and prize by the Royal Society of
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Domination

The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

by Alice Roberts ...

Narrated by Alice Roberts ...

Unabridged

12 hours 46 min

This is the story of the fall of an Empire – and the rise of another.Who spread Christianity, how, and why? In her quest to find the answer, Professor Alice Roberts takes us on a gripping investigative journey. From a secluded valley in south Wales to the shores of Brittany; from the heart of the Roman Empire in a time of political turmoil to the ancient city of Corinth in the footsteps of the ... Read more

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This is the story of the fall of an Empire – and the rise of another.Who spread Christianity, how, and why? In her quest to find the answer, Professor Alice Roberts takes us on a gripping investigative journey. From a secluded valley in south Wales to the shores of Brittany; from the heart of the Roman Empire in a time of political turmoil to the ancient city of Corinth in the footsteps of the
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