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Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World through the Women Written Out of It
By Emily Hauser
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By Emily Hauser
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Weaving literary elements with historical evidence, Emily Hauser explores the complex and powerful women of both Homer’s Iliad and The Odyssey in Penelope’s Bones.
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. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores of women as wellcomplex, fascinating women whose stories have gone unexplored for far too lon...
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores of women as wellcomplex, fascinating women whose stories have gone unexplored for far too lon...
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