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02842aam a2200325 i 4500 001 88BC42CEFC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 220414s2020 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0063211319 020 $a 9780063211315 040 $a TLC $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Haynes, Natalie $e author. $0 (DLC)no2011038298 245 10 $a Pandora's jar : $b women in Greek myths / $c Natalie Haynes. 264 1 $a New York : $b Harper, $c 2020. 300 $a 308 pages. 505 $a Pandora -- Jocasta -- Helen -- Medusa -- The Amazons -- Clytemnestra -- Eurydice -- Phaedra -- Medea -- Penelope. 520 $a 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. 600 0 $a Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae. $0 (local)tlcaut18586482528843600 600 0 $a Hera (Greek deity) $0 (local)tlcaut18586482536020500 600 0 $a Athena (Greek deity) $0 (local)tlcaut18586482544198200 600 0 $a Artemis (Greek deity) $0 (local)tlcaut18586482553190500 600 0 $a Eurydice (Greek mythological character) $0 (local)tlcaut18586482560434500 600 0 $a Penelope (Greek mythological character) $0 (local)tlcaut18586482566466600 650 0 $a Jocasta (Greek mythology) $0 (DLC)sh 97000447 650 0 $a Mythology, Greek. $0 (DLC)sh 85089396 650 0 $a Women $x Mythology. $0 (DLC)sh 85147323 941 $a 1 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015950.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=88BC42CEFC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search