At the end of April 2025, my second book will be published! It’s a popularizing book about ancient myth in uncertain times. The Dutch title is Leidraad door het labyrint: de macht van mythen in onzekere tijden. The English version – it’ll be an adaptation rather than a strict translation, as I feel some things need to be expanded and others left out for an international audience – will be published by Routledge, hopefully towards the end of 2025.

Here is what readers so far have said:

‘In this clearly structured book, Evelien Bracke reveals the full richness of a both cherished and reviled mythological tradition. The stories exist in many versions, but prove to have an inexhaustible potential for meaning. That is why existential and political dilemmas are illustrated to this day with Greek myths, which in Bracke’s subtle interpretations often raise more questions than appears at first glance.’ — Piet Gerbrandy, poet, classicist and teacher

‘Myths are timeless, you sometimes hear people say. No, myths are of our time, including the Greek ones. They help to give meaning in unstable times. That is what Evelien Bracke shows in this fascinating, richly
documented, surprisingly topical and very convincing book.’ — Patrick De Rynck, classicist and author

‘I am being completely honest when I say that it has been a long time since I have been so captivated by a book. This is the information I needed to be able to give students a satisfactory answer to their questions about ’the why’ of certain mythological stories. Moreover, this is a brilliant plea for the relevance of our classical languages, without it coming across that way. The myths, meaning, explanation and interpretation speak for themselves.’ – Secondary School Teacher