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Finding the Female Voice in the Ancient World
Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
600 S. Gregory St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-2360
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Hours
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In this talk, award-winning classicist and Times bestselling author Dr. Emily Hauser explores the many different ways in which we can start to uncover the women of the ancient world. Dealing with the silences of the archive—the voices and identities written out of history—requires new and innovative tools, and in this talk she surveys the many different approaches she has taken across her fiction and non-fiction writing to recover women: from deep analysis of Greek texts to popular contemporary myth retellings to innovative takes on history that mix fact and fiction to uncover new ways of knowing. Join her on an adventure across time and the tools of history to re-discover the women of the ancient world.
Copies of Hauser's recent books Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It and How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature will be available onsite for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public.