The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building
blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus
on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.
Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek
tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the
Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of
novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told
almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have
usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling
women’s stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as
monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora – the first woman,
who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world – was not a
villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than
generations of retellings might indicate.
Now, in Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, Natalie Haynes –
broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist – redresses this
imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the
starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing
with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men,
be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the
voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and
Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.
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