Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Adults
A classicist re-examines Pandora, Medusa, Helen and others, showing how later tellers turned them into villains.
- Author
- Natalie Haynes
- Age
- For grown-ups
- Type
- Feminist Retelling, Non-fiction
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Picador
- Readers rate it
- 4.21 / 5 on Goodreads
- In India
- Available
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