#  Penelope's Bones, by Emily Hauser 

 



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### Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It

#### by former Junior Fellow Emily Hauser (2017 - 18)

#### Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s *Iliad* and *Odyssey*.

Published June 2025 by [University of Chicago Press](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo250606968.html).



 



 

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