Pandora's jar : : Women in Greek Myths

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Call Number: 292.211 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / General / Haynes, Natalie
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Copyright page.
Pandora -- Jocasta -- Helen -- Medusa -- The Amazons -- Clytemnestra -- Eurydice -- Phaedra -- Medea -- Penelope.
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, 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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The Women in Greek Myths submitted by hiker15 on July 12, 2023, 7:48pm We've all heard the stories of the Greek myths from the point of view of the men characters, Haynes has done an amazing job retelling the stories from the perspective of the women characters. She begins with "Pandora's Jar". We all know about Pandora's box, but it was mistranslated as her troubles were originally in a jar and not a box. She corrects other misconceptions about the myths. A very interesting book that I would recommend.