Author Emily’s legenday talk casts a spell on young audience
PUPILS got a lesson in classical civilisation when author Emily Hauser stopped by to talk about how the classics have influenced her career.
Emily, 28, who has written a best selling novel based on the ancient legend of Troy, came to the school to talk about the importance of learning about myths and legend, and keeping the subject of ‘Classics’ on the school curriculum.
She said: “It is important that classics remains at the heart of the curriculum because it allows us look at history through a different lens.
“We can admire a man like Achilles and set him against a series of different plots yet still be detached through the lens of history and see him as a product of his time.”
Emily’s book, For the Most Beautiful, has quickly jumped into the UK’s top 100 best sellers and rumours are already swirling of a Hollywood treatment on the cards.
Whilst the subject of the Trojan War is hardly an obscure one, Emily offers readers a new perspective to view it from – a woman’s.
The King’s School’s head of classics Mike Houghton said: “It was a great pleasure and something of an honour to welcome Emily to King’s during her whistle stop tour of Great Britain before returning to Yale.
“She is an emerging star possessing both a detailed appreciation of fact coupled with an imaginative interpretation and our young men and women were left spellbound by her lecture.”