Larissa Tittl

Emily Hauser’s Penelope’s Bones: A new history of Homer’s world through the women written out of it is something remarkable; remarkable because it opens the lives of ‘real’ Bronze Age women, named and unnamed, elite and enslaved: remarkable also because Hauser does this through an ambitious synthesis of richly detailed evidence drawn from archaeology, literary texts, historical documents, and scientific research. Continue reading for only $10 per month.