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

29 reviews

pipn_t's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Incest, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual violence and Rape

gaysian's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and War

tashtasher's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Incest, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Child death, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

Minor: Confinement, Slavery, Death of parent, and Alcohol

nathalie123's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Incest, and Sexism

a_violentfemme's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I have a physical copy of this book but I'm so glad I listened to the audiobook. It was like listening to an extended episode of 'stand up for the classics' and I am a huge fan of the podcast. Haynes' writing is informative without be ng pretentious, is sometimes funny but always engaging and relevant. She is quickly becoming a "will always read" author for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, War, Violence, Sexual violence, and Sexism

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