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Pandora's Jar - Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
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Pandora's Jar - Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
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'Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice
women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but
read on!' - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale 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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