Free Download Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
ReadlyNow 2 months ago

Free Download Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Virgil to from Aeschylus to Sophocles and Euripides. 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. Now, in Pandora’s Jar, Natalie Haynes – broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist – redresses this imbalance. Taking Greek creation myths as her starting point and then retelling the four great mythic sagas: the Trojan War, the Royal House of Thebes, Jason and the Argonauts, Heracles, she puts the female characters on equal footing with their menfolk. The result is a vivid and powerful account of the deeds – and misdeeds - of Hera, Aphrodite, Athene and Circe. And away from the goddesses of Mount Olympus it is Helen, Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Antigone and Medea who sing from these pages, not Paris, Agamemnon, Orestes or Jason.

Download

Free Download White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Free Download White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and...

1725102045.png
ReadlyNow
2 months ago
Free Download A Burning by Megha Majumdar

Free Download A Burning by Megha Majumdar

1725102045.png
ReadlyNow
2 months ago
Free Download When We Fall by Aoife Clifford

Free Download When We Fall by Aoife Clifford

1725102045.png
ReadlyNow
1 month ago
Free Download The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness by Epictetus ,  Sharon Lebell  (Retold by)

Free Download The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happi...

1725102045.png
ReadlyNow
1 month ago
Free Download The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

Free Download The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

1725102045.png
ReadlyNow
3 months ago