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02950aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 9009CC78969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210406010037 008 200929t20202020enka e b 000 0 eng 020 $a 1509873120 020 $a 9781509873128 020 $a 1509873112 020 $a 9781509873111 035 $a (OCoLC)1199323195 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YDXIT $d NZAUC $d YDXIT $d STF $d SILO 043 $a e-gr--- 050 4 $a BL795 W65 H39 2020 100 1 $a Haynes, Natalie, $e author. 245 10 $a Pandora's jar : $b women in Greek myths / $c Natalie Haynes. 246 34 $a Pandora's jar : $b women in the Greek myths 264 1 $a London : $b Picador, $c 2020. 300 $a 307 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 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. 505 0 $a Pandora -- Jocasta -- Helen -- Medusa -- The Amazons -- Clytemnestra -- Eurydice -- Phaedra -- Medea -- Penelope. 600 00 $a Clytemnestra, $c Queen of Mycenae 600 00 $a Hera $c (Greek deity) 600 00 $a Athena $c (Greek deity) 600 00 $a Artemis $c (Greek deity) 600 00 $a Eurydice $c (Greek mythological character) 600 00 $a Penelope $c (Greek mythological character) 650 0 $a Jocasta (Greek mythology) 650 0 $a Mythology, Greek. 650 0 $a Women $x Mythology. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043223.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9009CC78969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search