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- Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter
Une tombe récemment découverte à Pompéi révèle qu’être une femme influente dans l’Antiquité ne passait pas toujours par le mariage.
Odysseus has returned home but his biggest challenge is still ahead of him, winning back the woman he loves.
This woman might have been a priestess of the goddess Ceres.
In the final instalment in Fry’s Greek myth retellings that started with Mythos, the author presents a charming and witty tale in search of a hero – but other stories are left unexplored.
Hera might not have been a passionate apiarist but there’s some truth in Kaos’s twisting of the tales
In the final novel in the trilogy that started with The Silence of the Girls, Barker brings the Trojan tragedy to a haunting close – and demands justice for the wrongs of war.
The paintings show the trio of women from Greek myth in a way that makes us see the Trojan War myth anew.
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