Natalie Haynes is one of a new group of writers reclaiming women's voices from ancient literature.

Instead, they're finding compelling and timely voices: refugees fleeing war-zones, women being treated as commodities and people trying to survive an epidemic.
"When you re-tell a myth, you make it new," says Haynes.
In her book, A Thousand Ships, she foregrounds "the female characters which had been deliberately erased or overlooked".
Given we live in a world with environmental disasters, disease, sexual violence and war, Haynes says these tales are as pertinent now as they were 3,000 years ago.
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