Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Mythica by Emily Hauser #NonfictionNovember

Posted November 6, 2024 by Stephanie in can't-wait wednesday, nonfiction november, nonfiction november 2024 / 9 Comments

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read.

 

 

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It by Emily Hauser
‎Expected publication: April 10, 2025 by University of Chicago Press; First Edition

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, 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.

A 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 – Mythica is a ground-breaking reassessment of the reality behind the often-mythologized women of Greece’s greatest epics, and of the ancient world itself as we learn ever more about it.

 

 

This is already one of my most anticipated reads of 2025. I love learning about the Bronze Age, Homer’s work, Greek mythology and real women’s history from the ancient world. I’m sure it’s going to be a fantastic read!

 

 

Are you also looking forward to this book? What do you think of it?
Leave links to your Can’t-Wait Wednesday post so I can stop by!

 

 

9 responses to “Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Mythica by Emily Hauser #NonfictionNovember

  1. This sounds like a riveting read, Stephanie! I’ll see how my health holds up before considering it – right now I’m in full escape mode again as I’m recovering from yet another major long covid relapse. But if I’m better, this is one I’d love to read – thank you for sharing:)).

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