Natalie Haynes

Pandora's Jar

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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…
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  • maruușkihas quoted3 years ago
    We have made space in our storytelling to rediscover women who have been lost or forgotten. They are not villains, victims, wives and monsters: they are people
  • maruușkihas quoted3 years ago
    Myths may be the home of the miraculous, but they are also mirrors of us

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