EMILY - Greece 1

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. ……続きを見る

'Brilliant ... enthralling and profoundly relevant' Salman Rushdie 'Joyful, illuminating and engaging ... required reading for anyone interested in translation' Madeline Miller How do we give old wo……続きを見る

How the wisdom of Herodotus can fortify us against political falsehoods and violent extremism Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek writer Herodotus introduced the concept of objective truth derived fro……続きを見る

**THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER 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’……続きを見る

From the arrival of the first men in Greece to the fall of the Mycenaean palace-town in the thirteenth century B.C., this work captures the essential qualities of each period of pre-classical civili……続きを見る

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male oneーaoidos, or “singer-man.” The most famous w……続きを見る

Grief and the Hero examines Achilles’ experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad’s study of anger. No action can undo his friend Patroklos’ death, but the experience of death dr……続きを見る

Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh……続きを見る