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Haynes, Natalie

Haynes, Natalie

Duraleigh Road Community
East Regional
Express Library Fayetteville St.
Green Road Community
Richard B. Harrison Community

Adult Non-Fiction

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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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Books

8356630a-8551-fed3-df65-094e2ba97c22

9780063139466

2024-05-15T07:16:22.177Z

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

292.2 HAYNE

Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
East Regional
Express Library Fayetteville St.
Fuquay-Varina Community
Green Road Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Richard B. Harrison Community
West Regional

9780063139466

2022

Harper Perennial

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Artemis -- (Greek deity)
Athena -- (Greek deity)
Clytemnestra, -- Queen of Mycenae
Eurydice -- (Greek mythological character)
Hera -- (Greek deity)
Jocasta (Greek mythology)
Mythology, Greek
Penelope -- (Greek mythological character)
Women -- Mythology

Pandora's jar : women in Greek myths

Pandora's jar : women in Greek myths / Natalie Haynes

Pandora's jar

women in Greek myths

Artemis
Athena
Clytemnestra
Eurydice
Hera
Jocasta (Greek mythology)
Mythology
Mythology, Greek
Penelope
Women