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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

    $14.39 USD

  • 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

    $28.39 USD

  • 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

    $28.39 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Library of Ancient Wisdom

    Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

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  • Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies

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  • Perspective(s)

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