Book Review: Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

Book #123 of 2022: Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes An interesting collection of essays, each one focusing on a different woman from Greek mythology and exploring how she’s changed from her earliest surviving depictions through to popular culture impressions today. The focus of the project is already somewhat automatically feminist, …

Book Review: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Book #53 of 2021: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes Everybody seems to be comparing this book to Madeline Miller’s Circe, and the similarities are admittedly striking between the two feminist retellings of Greek myth. But I think this title asks more of its readers in terms of bringing prior knowledge of the old stories …

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