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003			OCoLC
005			20231102192133.0
008			210409t20222020nyua e b 000 0 eng d
020			_a9780063139466
035			_a(OCoLC)1274174356
040			_aCNEDM _beng _erda _cCNEDM _dPX0 _dRNL _dOCLCO _dMiTN
050		4	_aBL795 .W65 _bH39 2022
099			_aF _aHAY
100	1		_aHaynes, Natalie,
245	1	0	_aPandora's jar : _bwomen in Greek myths / _cNatalie Haynes.
246	3	4	_aPandora's jar : _bwomen in the Greek myths.
250			_aFirst U. S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper Perennial, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a308 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_a"Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Copyright page.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-208).
505	0		_aPandora -- Jocasta -- Helen -- Medusa -- The Amazons -- Clytemnestra -- Eurydice -- Phaedra -- Medea -- Penelope.
520			_aThe 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	0	_aArtemis _c(Greek deity)
600	0	0	_aAthena _c(Greek deity)
600	0	0	_aClytemnestra, _cQueen of Mycenae.
600	0	0	_aEurydice _c(Greek mythological character)
600	0	0	_aHera _c(Greek deity)
600	0	0	_aPenelope _c(Greek mythological character)
650		0	_aJocasta (Greek mythology)
650		0	_aMythology, Greek.
650		0	_aWomen _xMythology.
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