In the many retellings of the Greek myths, the focus is generally on gods and heroes, but Natalie Haynes refocuses our gaze on the remarkable women at the centre of these ancient stories.&#39Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes notverynice women were up to!&#39 &ndash Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid&#39s TaleThe Greek myths are among the world&#39s 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.Now, in Pandora&#39s Jar Women in the Greek Myths, 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.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 little interest in telling women&rsquos stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora &ndash the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world &ndash was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate.After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Odysseus, the voices that sing from these pages are...

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