Author Talk: Ancient Love Stories with the award-winning classicist & novelist Emily Hauser at Exeter Library on tuesday 3rd Oct 2023, from 7pm to 8pm.
This is a free event. However, it is going to be very popular, so booking is essential. Please see a member of staff at Exeter Library to book your free place.
Ancient Love Stories (www.emilyhauser.com)
We don’t have to look to works of fiction to find tales of true love. The pages of history are crammed with stories about love that are, quite literally, true. And many of them are among the greatest love stories ever told.
Ancient Love Stories brings together some of the most remarkable romances in history – from tales of fearless queens and besotted emperors to men who died fighting for the men they loved. These accounts of passion, jealousy, hope and longing show that perhaps little has changed over the last three thousand years – love, above all, has endured.
Written by Emily Hauser and with beautiful artwork by illustrator Sander Berg. This is a free 1hr event, and books will be available to buy.
Emily Hauser is an award-winning classicist and the author of an acclaimed trilogy of novels retelling the stories of the women of Greek myth, For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For the Immortal. She read Classics at Cambridge, where she received a double first with distinction and won the Chancellor's Medal for Classical Proficiency. She has a PhD in Classics from Yale, and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is now a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.