In the years since #MeToo movement began, there has been a resurgence of feminist retellings ancient myth. Novels such as Pat Barker’s The Silence Girls (2018), Madeline Miller’s Circe Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships (2019) and Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne (2021) form cohort books regularly appearing on bestseller charts award shortlists. This paper traces rising popularity contemporary revisions...

During the last two decades, a surge of historical revisionism has commanded considerable attention in both academia and the public sphere, as historians have linked their understandings of the past to salient problems and identity crises of the present. Increasingly, the histories of nations have been problematized and have become the object of commemorative battles. Historiographical disputes...