Pandora's Jar

<p><b>'Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to!' &ndash; </b><b>Margaret Atwood, author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>Now, in <i>Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths</i>, Natalie Haynes &ndash; broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist &ndash; 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.<br><br>Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus. But modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown l