Dive into the untold stories of the women behind Homer’s epic myths with Emily Hauser’s “Mythica: The Untold History of the Real Women Behind Homer’s Myths.” If you loved “Circe,” “The Silence of the Girls,” “Elektra,” or “A Thousand Ships,” this book is for you. Hauser, an award-winning classicist, unearths the astonishing true narratives of the women central to the Trojan War and Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey.” Moving beyond ancient history’s male-dominated narrative, “Mythica” reconstructs the lives of queens, warriors, mothers, and slaves using original texts, archaeology, and DNA studies. Journey through the Bronze Age Aegean and Homer’s epics as charted by Helen, Briseis, Cassandra, Aphrodite, Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso, and Penelope. This groundbreaking work offers a powerful reassessment of the reality behind these legendary figures and the ancient world itself.