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Pandora's Jar : Women in the Greek Myths

'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

This audio edition is expertly and enthusiastically read by the author, Natalie Haynes.

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.


Author:

  • Natalie Haynes

Narrator:

  • Natalie Haynes

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 9 h 23 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Historic and folklore novels
  • Myths and legends
  • History
  • Prehistory
  • Nonfiction
  • Religion and faith
  • Classics and poetry
  • Classics

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    Natalie Haynes

    Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, a book on classics and the modern world, and The Amber Fury, a novel for adults. She has judged the Women's Prize for Fiction (2012), The Man Booker Prize (2013), and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2014). She writes for The Independent, The Guardian, The Times, and The Observer. She also makes documentaries for Radio 4 about the classics, zombies, and occasionally about urban chicken-keeping. She used to have cats, but now doesn't have a garden. As soon as she does, she will have cats again.

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