Emily Hauser
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Emily Hauser is an award-winning ancient historian and author, and a world-leading voice in rediscovering the women of the ancient world. She studied Classics at Cambridge with Mary Beard, where she took a double first with distinction and won the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Classical Proficiency. She has a PhD in Classics from Yale and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows. The author of acclaimed novels rewriting Greek myth, including For the Most Beautiful, as well as a number of academic works, her books have been published and translated across the world, listed among the "28 Best Books for Summer" in The Telegraph and shortlisted for the Seminary Co-Op’s Best Books of 2023. She has appeared on several BBC Radio shows including Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, and has been featured in The Guardian alongside Colm Tóibín and Natalie Haynes. Her new book, Mythica (UK) and Penelope's Bones (USA): A New History of Homer’s World, through the Women Written Out Of It, was an instant Times bestseller in the UK and is coming to the US in June 2025.
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    • Mythica

    • A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
    • By: Emily Hauser
    • Narrated by: Emily Hauser
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2025
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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