EURYDICE
Neide, Emil （1870s）， oil on canvas, Orpheus and Eurydice.
PHAEDRA
Red-figure hydria （fifth century BCE）， showing Phaedra on a swing, Berlin, Antikensammlung.
MEDEA
Athenian black-figure hydria （ca. 510–500 BCE）， attributed to the Leagros Group, Medea and the Rejuvenation of the Ram, London, British Museum, inv. 1843,1103.59.
Lucanian red-figure calyx-krater （ca. 400 BCE）， near the Policoro Painter, Escape of Medea/Medea in a Chariot, Cleveland OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, inv. 1991.1.
Noble, Thomas Satterwhite （1867）， oil on board, Modern Medea, Cincinnati, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
PENELOPE
Athenian red-figure skyphos （ca. 440 BCE）， attributed to The Penelope Painter, Penelope and Telemachus at her loom, Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 1831.
Cavelier, Jules （1842）， marble, Penelope （or Penelope Asleep）， Paris, Musée d’Orsay.
Ligare, David （1980）， oil on canvas, Penelope, collection of the artist.
Athenian grave stele of Hegeso （late fifth century BCE）， marble, Athens, National Archaeological Museum, inv. 3624.
Wheeler, Dora （1886）， silk embroidered with silk thread, Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night, New York, Metropolitan Museum, inv. 2002.230.
Maguire, Marian （2017）， acrylic on wood, Penelope weaves and waits.
About the Author
NATALIE HAYNES is the author of six books, including A Thousand Ships, which was a national bestseller and was short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has written and recorded seven series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics for the BBC. She appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 2002 through 2006, where she became the first woman ever nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. She has been on tour with Stand-Up Classics shows since 2010. Haynes has written for The Times, Independent, Guardian, and Observer. She lives in London.
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Praise for Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes
A Waterstone’s Best Book of the Year
“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
“Natalie Haynes is both a witty and an erudite guide. She wears her extensive learning lightly and deftly drags the classics into the modern world. I loved it.”
—Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life
“Natalie Haynes is beyond brilliant. Pandora’s Jar is a treasure box of classical delights. Never has ancient misogyny been presented with so much wit and style.”
—Amanda Foreman, author of The World Made by Women
“Natalie Haynes is [Britain’s] muse.”
—Adam Rutherford, author of How to Argue With a Racist
“With references to Beyoncé, Star Trek, Ray Harryhausen . . . the most enjoyable book about Greek myths you will ever read, absolutely brimming with subversive enthusiasm.”
—Mark Haddon, author of The Porpoise and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“Witty, erudite, and subversive, this takes the women of Greek myth—the women who are sidelined, vilified, misunderstood, or ignored—and puts them center stage.”
—Samantha Ellis, author of How to Be a Heroine and Take Courage
UK Praise
“Putting women center stage in an enjoyable, witty look at the ways in which their stories have been changed over time. . . . Part of the project of this hugely lively, fun, yet serious, book is to unpeel the accretions that have affixed themselves over time, like barnacles on a shipwreck, to the women of Greek myth, from Pandora to Helen of Troy via Phaedra and Medea. . . . A hugely enjoyable and witty book, which will appeal to admirers of novels such as Madeline Miller’s Circe, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, and Haynes’s own fiction.”
—The Guardian （London）
“Impassioned and informed. . . . When Haynes gets down to retelling the stories . . . and teasing out their distortions and elisions, the book flies.”
—Sunday Times （London）