Auction catalogue, books of Lansdowne House Library, 2 to 4 April 1930
Author : Hodgson & Co. (London).
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1930
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Author : Hodgson & Co. (London).
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1930
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Page : 648 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1942
Category : American literature
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Author : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Art
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 1969
Category : English imprints
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
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Page : 790 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
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Author : Adolf Michaelis
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Page : 910 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Marble sculpture, Ancient
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Page : 772 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 1988-07
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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Author : Natalie Haynes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0063139472
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea. The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil—like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world’s suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over. In Pandora’s Jar, the broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian, and passionate classicist turns the tables, putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit, humor, and savvy, Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems, stories, and plays, resurrecting them from a woman’s perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters. She looks at women such as Jocasta, Oedipus’ mother-turned-lover-and-wife (turned Freudian sticking point), at once the cleverest person in the story and yet often unnoticed. She considers Helen of Troy, whose marriage to Paris “caused” the Trojan war—a somewhat uneven response to her decision to leave her husband for another man. She demonstrates how the vilified Medea was like an ancient Beyonce—getting her revenge on the man who hurt and betrayed her, if by extreme measures. And she turns her eye to Medusa, the original monstered woman, whose stare turned men to stone, but who wasn’t always a monster, and had her hair turned to snakes as punishment for being raped. Pandora’s Jar brings nuance and care to the millennia-old myths and legends and asks the question: Why are we so quick to villainize these women in the first place—and so eager to accept the stories we’ve been told?