Meet the author

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Emily Hauser is an award-winning ancient historian and author, and world-leading voice in rediscovering the women of Greek myth. Having studied at Harvard, Yale and Cambridge (where she won the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Classical Proficiency), she is the author of acclaimed novels rewriting Greek mythical women, 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 BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, and has been featured in The Guardian alongside Colm Tóibín and Natalie Haynes. Her next highly-anticipated book, MYTHICA: A New History of Homer’s World, through the Women Written Out Of It, is out in April 2025.

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View fullsize Learn along with us – & discover the millennia-long history of non-binary gender🏳️‍🌈✨ This week in WOMEN IN HOMER at @uniofexeter, I was talking about how the idea of non-binary, fluid gender is actually SUPER ancient (like, Mesopotam
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View fullsize What did grief look like in the past? We can't know for sure – but this is about as close as we'll get. If you feel like tearing at your hair, know that others have done so before you. If you are dealing with loss, know that loss has been exper
View fullsize So exciting to see my new book MYTHICA now available to buy on @waterstones – do check it out!✨ Link in bio👉 ✨ MYTHICA is a new history of Homer’s world, through the women written out of it. Because the women of the ancient world were mo
View fullsize Learn along with us!✨ Here's the Minoan Snake Goddess from last week's Women in Homer class @uniofexeter and – isn't she fierce?✨ Dating to c.1600 BCE, she was discovered by Sir Arthur Evans at the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete (along wit
View fullsize Learn along with us!✨ This week in WOMEN IN HOMER at Exeter, we've been diving deep into the Hittites: an astonishing Anatolian Bronze Age empire that we definitely don't talk about enough. Not least because of the brilliantly powerful & influent
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View fullsize How wonderful not only to be able to hear the amazing, inspirational @bettany_hughes in conversation with dear friend @maimusie at @cheltfestivals, on BH's brilliant recent book THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD – but also to get to meet B
View fullsize ✨Review: Odyssey by Stephen Fry✨ Care for a review? Have a look at my take on Stephen Fry's latest Greek myth retelling, Odyssey – link in Stories👉 TLDR: It's a charming vision of the Odyssey we're all too familiar with – the dashing he
View fullsize Learn along with us!✨ This term at the University of Exeter, I'm so lucky to be teaching a large intro lecture class called WOMEN IN HOMER – drawing on my new book ✨MYTHICA: A New History of Homer's World, through the Women Written Out Of It✨ (
View fullsize What an absolute delight to be able to talk about MYTHICA for the FIRST TIME yesterday at the Tiverton Book Festival (orchestrated by the wonderful @liznojan_books)... I have literally been hanging onto this secret for so long, & it was thrilling