Conversations: How Women Became Poets, Gender History in Greek Literature w/ Emily Hauser

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Liv speaks with author Emily Hauser about her book How Women Became Poets. They look at women in Greek myth, literature, etymology, and, very specifically, the long and arduous history of women 'poets' in Greek literature. Plus, a sneak peak at Emily's next work: Mythica/Penelope's Bones. Find more from Emily here.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello, this is let's talk about Mitz, baby, and I am your host, Live here with another amazing conversation episode.
0:42.5	Today's episode is with Emily Hauser, who is sort of everything in the classical world.
0:49.1	You may know her name from a number of novels from a few years back before the big craze, I would say. But also,
0:57.6	she has some recent and upcoming nonfiction work. And wow, this book that we're talking
1:07.7	about today slash just this conversation in general blew my mind wide open
1:12.0	you can look forward to many more conversations with Emily because we had such an incredible time
1:18.6	and oh my god this episode and honestly I couldn't think of a better title for the episode than
1:26.2	the book itself.
1:28.4	So just, oh, enjoy.
1:53.2	Conversations, How Women Became Poets, Gender History in Greek Literature with Emily Hauser. Music So you set a couple things off, Mike, that will lead me directly into how I'm so thrilled to have you here, which is talking about writing academically versus we didn't actually talk about it,
2:18.2	but I'm going to bring it up the fiction writing because I did not know that you were an academic.
2:25.1	I only had your fiction books on my shelf. And then so when Michaela like told me about this,
2:32.3	this book, how women became poets, michaela suggested this and i was like
2:37.0	oh great she was like can we get it for the show and i was like yeah we're both getting copies no
2:40.4	problem and i had one sent to her but i saw the name and i was like oh i literally only had considered
2:46.9	fiction i was so thrilled to like know this. And then I Googled you and then very
2:51.3	shortly after you messaged me. So it became this absolutely perfect thing. But it must be so
2:56.9	interesting to have a fiction career in addition. Like there's not a lot of names for that. I mean,
3:03.1	Natalie Haynes is one. But I think she writes less of that, like, deeper academic stuff like you do.
3:07.9	So, I mean, yeah, where was that transition kind of coming from? And I know that your fiction is also
3:12.7	fairly older. So I don't know. I've had it for a while. I'm not going to lie. I have a lot of
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