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“And these feelings of love, companionship and intense sorrow are what Achilles feels now, looking down at the body of Penthesilea, a woman he was taunting only moments ago.” (Pandora’s Jar Quotes)
Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar
“It’s curious that the story of Eurydice and Orpheus is so much better known to us than the story of Alcestis and Admetus, when in classical Greece it seems to have been the other way round. We have no record of Eurydice’s name, even, until an obscure work called Lament for Bion, which was probably written in the first century BCE.”
Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar
“Pandora is a gift – literally: she is given by Hermes to Epimetheus. She is also all-gifted, insofar as many gods have contributed to her creation, giving her different qualities and skills.”
Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar
“Perhaps the most terrifying moment for us as children watching this film was when Medea’s father Aeëtes sows the Hydra’s teeth into the ground, and skeleton warriors rise up to fight Jason.”
Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar
“What might have happened if nineteenth- and twentieth-century myth writers had been more interested in the sources of their stories? If they had looked beyond Hesiod or Erasmus at some of the less well-known versions of Pandora’s story? If they had been willing to trawl through fragments of Theognis’ Elegies, from the sixth century BCE, they might have found a short passage which suggests that Pandora’s jar is full of good things rather than bad.”
Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar
“WHEN WE THINK OF PANDORA, WE PROBABLY HAVE A PICTURE in our minds. She holds a box in her hands, or she’s sitting beside one. She is opening it either because she is curious to see what’s inside, or because she knows what it contains and wants to let it out. Its contents are abstract but terrible: all the evils in the world are now set loose upon us. And, gratifyingly, we know exactly who to blame: the beautiful woman who couldn’t leave well alone.”
Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar
