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PANDORAS JAR - NATALIE HAYNES KARTONIERT (TB)

Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam Rutherford  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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