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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
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informative
medium-paced
informative
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informative
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funny
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slow-paced
funny
informative
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Incredible, amazing, once again should be required reading for everyone vaguely interested in mythology. It's so good! And her variety of sources and the comparisons and discussions are amazing!! And once again, I feel so fucking smart telling people about this book I'm reading!
DNF page 128
Just not my kind of book I guess. I think the subject matter is more advanced than I expected so it was really hard to understand when I don’t know the background and connections of Greek mythology. I found myself zoning out and having to hype myself up just to get through 10 pages. Life is too short to have anxiety about reading a book.
Just not my kind of book I guess. I think the subject matter is more advanced than I expected so it was really hard to understand when I don’t know the background and connections of Greek mythology. I found myself zoning out and having to hype myself up just to get through 10 pages. Life is too short to have anxiety about reading a book.
Exactly what I wanted, a modern feminist lens on the Greek goddesses. Really fills the niche I was missing after reading that collection of tragic plays and feeling so alienated by the lack of such considerations in the accompanying essays.
While she covers the classics by speaking on a selection of well known myths on certain goddesses, I love that Haynes also includes discussions of ancient art, artifacts, and plays as well as more modern retellings, occassional exploration of their archetypes, themes in modern pop culture, throughout literature.
Of course, Haynes has my heart for writing on Hestia.
The goddesses can be as cruel, power-mad, irrational as any of the males in the pantheon, but it was refreshing to see a writer consistently identify the societal factors that would affect how they were portrayed then, and how we might look on them with fresh eyes now.
Now on to Pandora's Jar! .
⚠️ SA, incest
While she covers the classics by speaking on a selection of well known myths on certain goddesses, I love that Haynes also includes discussions of ancient art, artifacts, and plays as well as more modern retellings, occassional exploration of their archetypes, themes in modern pop culture, throughout literature.
Of course, Haynes has my heart for writing on Hestia.
The goddesses can be as cruel, power-mad, irrational as any of the males in the pantheon, but it was refreshing to see a writer consistently identify the societal factors that would affect how they were portrayed then, and how we might look on them with fresh eyes now.
Now on to Pandora's Jar! .
⚠️ SA, incest
funny
informative
medium-paced
certainly a quick and easy listen, i enjoyed it while i was going, though now that i’ve finished i can’t say it had a very big impact on me. i’ve already forgotten most of what was said in the first 2 chapters (on the muses and aphrodite) and i only started this like 4 days ago or smth :/ i did enjoy the chapters on hestia (who i knew virtually nothing about), hera, and athena, and particularly demeter, but the others i found unmemorable. i didn’t mind the pop culture references, contrary to lots of other people’s opinions, but i do think they kept this book from feeling overly educational, and more of just a lighthearted quick surface level book (even if a lot of what is covered is quite dark - as you would imagine with greek mythology). i just feel like it never went deep enough into these characters and these tales - i felt i was kept at arms length, and that it kept coming so close to delving deeper and getting rlly interesting, but it just never did. idk. overall, i did enjoy it, but wanted a bit more. my lack of enthusiasm is potentially my fault for not learning a little more about greek mythology beforehand, as i was defs trying to keep up with the many names, and with the tales that i was unfamiliar with… 3.5/5?
informative
slow-paced