PANDORAS JAR: WOMEN IN THE GREEK MYTHS (PB)

In the many retellings of the Greek myths, the focus is generally on gods and heroes, but Natalie Haynes - broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist - refocuses our gaze on the remarkable women at the centre of these ancient stories. 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.