{"product_id":"9780063139466-pandoras-jar-women-in-the-greek-myths","title":"Pandora's Jar Women In The Greek Myths","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: NEW YORK Times Bestseller Funny sharp explications of what these sometimes not - very - nice women were up to and how they sometimes made idiots of but read on! Margaret Atwood author of The Handmaid's Tale The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating eye - opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea. The tellers of Greek myths historically men have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role women are often portrayed as monstrous vengeful or just plain evil like Pandora the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world's suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But as Natalie Haynes reveals in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar which is far more likely to tip over. In Pandora's Jar the broadcaster writer stand - up comedian and passionate classicist turns the tables putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit humor and savvy Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems stories and plays resurrecting them from a woman's perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters. She looks at women such as Jocasta Oedipus mother - turned - lover - and - wife (turned Freudian sticking point) at once the cleverest person in the story and yet often unnoticed. She considers Helen of Troy whose marriage to Paris caused the Trojan war a somewhat uneven response to her decision to leave her husband for another man. She demonstrates how the vilified Medea was like an ancient Beyonce getting her revenge on the man who hurt and betrayed her if by extreme measures. And she turns her eye to Medusa the original monstered woman whose stare turned men to stone but who wasn t always a monster and had her hair turned to snakes as punishment for being raped. Pandora's Jar brings nuance and care to the millennia - old myths and legends and asks the question: Why are we so quick to villainize these women in the first place and so eager to accept the stories we ve been told?\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Pandora's Jar Women In The Greek Myths\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Haynes Natalie\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Harpercollins\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780063139466\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 320 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 3\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haynes Natalie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590905274673,"sku":"IN-G-9780063139466","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780063139466-pandoras-jar-women-in-the-greek-myths","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}