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Emily Hauser

Praise for Mythica

A bold and intellectually-thrilling book, blending history and science, rigorous scholarship and dazzling feats of imagination.

TOM HOLLAND, bestselling historian and co-host of The Rest is History podcast

This book is one of the most thought provoking I have read in a very long time . . . it absolutely blew me away. It is such a rich, evocative and original work . . . it's just breathtaking . . . If you are in ...

ELODIE HARPER, bestselling author of The Wolf Den

Scholarly and witty, curious and lyrical - in Mythica, Emily Hauser offers a dazzling new way of thinking about the ancient world. Blending archaeology, literary criticism and historical detective work ...

DAN JONES, bestselling author of Henry V

A bold and intellectually-thrilling book, blending history and science, rigorous scholarship and dazzling feats of imagination.

TOM HOLLAND, bestselling historian and co-host of The Rest is History podcast

This book is one of the most thought provoking I have read in a very long time . . . it absolutely blew me away. It is such a rich, evocative and original work . . . it's just breathtaking . . . If you are in ...

ELODIE HARPER, bestselling author of The Wolf Den

Scholarly and witty, curious and lyrical - in Mythica, Emily Hauser offers a dazzling new way of thinking about the ancient world. Blending archaeology, literary criticism and historical detective work ...

DAN JONES, bestselling author of Henry V

A bold and intellectually-thrilling book, blending history and science, rigorous scholarship and dazzling feats of imagination.

TOM HOLLAND, bestselling historian and co-host of The Rest is History podcast

This book is one of the most thought provoking I have read in a very long time . . . it absolutely blew me away. It is such a rich, evocative and original work . . . it's just breathtaking . . . If you are in ...

ELODIE HARPER, bestselling author of The Wolf Den

Scholarly and witty, curious and lyrical - in Mythica, Emily Hauser offers a dazzling new way of thinking about the ancient world. Blending archaeology, literary criticism and historical detective work ...

DAN JONES, bestselling author of Henry V

Books by Emily Hauser

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Articles featuring Emily Hauser

10 things you didn’t know about the legendary women of Troy

10 things you didn’t know about the legendary women of Troy

Classicist, author and researcher Emily Hauser’s For the Most Beautiful imagines the lives of two largely overlooked Trojan women from The Iliad. Here, she tells us about the Trojan women depicted in Homer’s epic, historical facts about their real-life counterparts and the stories about them that survived
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