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So I thought how interesting it was that this character who was much more positive in the ancient world suddenly became so negative. Because, you know, the idea of a woman being responsible for the fall of man has been so stitched into European culture, thanks to the Bible, the idea of Pandora as something more interesting and complicated is just gone.

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Within twenty or thirty years, in paintings she’s being shown as a sort of Eve figure, malevolently opening this box full of horrible things to ruin everything for everybody. But all this nuance disappears when Erasmus translated the word pithos as pyxis, from jar to box. Sometimes her husband, Epimetheus, opens the jar. The famous jar is only mentioned in some versions of her story, one of the Hesiod accounts and not the other.

You have to conclude it because she’s never shown holding any kind of receptacle at all. The most important thing for the ancients was that Pandora was the first woman. In one of them we get a fire from Prometheus and in the other one women appear.Įvery ancient visual representation of Pandora shows her in the act of being created. There are two big moments where humanity evolves, I suppose, in terms of Greek myth’s origin story. For the Greeks she’s an agent of change, she’s the thing that shakes things up. Pandora was the obvious choice for the title because she experiences such a dramatic change in status. What I wanted to do was look at the story of women in Greek myth and how their stories had changed through 2,500 years or so, often in different media. And specifically it contains nine chapters based on individual women and one further chapter on Amazons, which focuses on three well-known Amazons: Hippolyte, Penthesilea and Antiope. Pandora’s Jar is a non-fiction book about women in Greek myth. I wonder if we could start this interview, then, with you saying a little bit about what Pandora’s Jar is about – what inspired you to write this book? It still looks really classy but it looks like quite a greyish blue whereas in life, as you can see, it’s a really warm quite yellowy blue. It’s much more beautiful in life than it looks on camera, I think. I was a bit annoyed nevertheless, since the cover really is so attractive. JH: Oh good, because my copy has definitely lived. I don’t mind that the pages got wet and now they’re all bumpy. This was like the bit of the day that you set aside for just you and you read my project. I love that you wanted to read it in the bath. People are often really keen to show me how pristine their copy is – or they might say, “Oh I’m sorry, I dropped it in the bath”. So my copy is always completely bashed up. It tours the world with me so I can read it at events or whatever. And my books… you know, the copy I have of each one has a really hard life. First of all, I want to say congratulations on Pandora’s Jar, which I enjoyed a great deal, though I must apologise for having spilled coffee on my copy! Jan Haywood: Thank you for joining me today, Natalie.

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This interview with Jan Haywood was recorded on Zoom in December 2020.Ī PDF file of this conversation is available for download. In this interview, she discusses her bestselling book Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, which retells the stories of several women from ancient Greek mythology.

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She has also made numerous television and radio appearances for the BBC, including the radio series Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics.

She has published several books, including a retelling of the story of Oedipus and Antigone ( The Children of Jocasta) and a novel centred on the women of Troy ( A Thousand Ships).

Natalie Haynes is an author, broadcaster, comedian and classicist.

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