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

34 reviews

cozy_gh0st's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, War, Rape, Sexual violence, Gore, Murder, and Blood

sunday_evening's review against another edition

funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Overall I really liked this!!!!! I learned so much. Euripidies is my main bitch. There were sometimes I thought Haynes went on a tangent for a bit too long, especially in Phaedra’s chapter. I don’t feel like I learned as much about her as the others. But for the most part I found the tangents and anecdotes informative and interesting!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, Violence, War, and Suicide

Minor: Incest

junglejelly's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Such an amazing book to delve into a few the women of Greek myths. A great springboard to look into other similar texts, too.

Haynes explores various themes and arguments for each woman, linking a few of them together (it's Greek myth, everyone's related).

Not a full 5 stars for me as sometimes I felt I as the reader needed to know the myths better to understand some of the points Haynes made.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Murder, Rape, Violence, Incest, Child death, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Sexual violence

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Cannibalism

elysareadsitall's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

"Pandora's Jar" is an excellent analysis of some of the most famous mortal women of ancient Greek myths. Haynes's research is impeccable. She pulls the most well-known stories and obscure mentions to explore how the women were treated in the ancient world, and she explores modern interpretations to show how that treatment has changed or not. She makes clear the misogyny inherent in the ancient and modern interpretations and how it has evolved over time. Her feminist readings are fascinating and provide insight about how women are treated today, whether fictional or real. This book has made me want to reread the ancient works and inspired me to expand my TBR.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

sydapel's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

I really appreciated the in depth look at many different women in Greek myths, examining not just their portrayals in plays of the time, but their complex histories and trauma. Even with the most "evil" of them, Hayes gently reminds us of the context of their decisions and challenges our notions of their characters. There's also a reminder of the subtle power plays they employed, which I appreciated in contrast the to abject suffering. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Death, Rape, Infidelity, War, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Sexual harassment

hfleur's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Child death

Each event is not talked about in harrowing detail but definitely saddening/triggering in places.

sunflowerwork's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Suicide, Murder, and Misogyny

leanneymu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

A really interesting and accessible exploration of the women from Greek Myths. Although I know a little bit about Greek myths, it's a bit of a blind spot for me, and I found it very easy to follow the stories being discussed. If you know a lot about these stories, you might not enjoy it as much, but it really worked for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child death, Infidelity, Suicide, Misogyny, Death, Rape, and Violence

berrybiaful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

4.25

4.25/5

I really enjoyed this! I do exercise a bit of caution when delving into reads such as this one, in case the feminist takes were of the white feminist brand, but that wasn't the case here. 

Natalie Haynes brilliantly dissects the myths in which these women were apart of and offers new perspectives of their characters. I especially enjoyed the chapters on Helen and Penelope. 

However, I did feel as if she would digress in a few places and leave me forgetting what the main point was or how a certain tale related to the women she was talking about. 

This was a good book to start of my 2023 reading year!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Violence, Incest, and War

Minor: Sexual violence and Rape

moonytoast's review against another edition

4.25

RTC….. until then, support the HarperCollins Union strike!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Incest, Sexual violence, Rape, Infidelity, War, Violence, Suicide, and Murder