Natalie Haynes is one of a new group of writers reclaiming women's voices from ancient literature.
Along with authors such as Pat Barker and Madeline Miller, she's telling new versions of the Classics, veering away from epic fights and macho heroes.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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