Ancient Love Stories

About Emily Hauser

Emily Hauser (Author) 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 (2016-18, Penguin Random House). 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, and teaches and researches on women's writing ancient and modern. Her academic book, How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature, is coming out with Princeton University Press in 2023. Sander Berg (Illustrator) Sander Berg is a Swedish illustrator. His artwork seamlessly blends contemporary techniques and medieval subject matter, finding inspiration in art of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, nature and animals (unicorns included). His style has lent itself to various zines and books, gallery shows in the UK and US, and Google Doodles. A Journey Through Greek Myths?, was published in 2020 by Flying Eye Books.