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.
Join award-winning classicist and historian Dr Emily Hauser as she presents Mythica, the instant bestseller that tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the western world's greatest Greek myths.
Emily, following in these women’s footsteps, will dig into the history behind Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, piecing together evidence from the original texts, recent astonishing archaeological finds and the latest DNA studies. She will reveal who these women were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not) remembered them.
This will be 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. An evening exploring this 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.
"A bold and intellectually-thrilling book, blending history and science, rigorous scholarship and dazzling feats of imagination." Tom Holland, bestselling author of Rubicon and Pax

The ‘stream and book’ package includes a unique ticket for the stream, and a copy of Mythica (RRP £11.99) deliverable to any UK address.
The event will initially be broadcast on 4 March at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to two weeks after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for two weeks.
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