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“Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain.”

Women History Feminism Greek Mythology

Book:Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Source: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“Their focus is almost always on the destruction which Pandora has wreaked or will imminently wreak, which is surely a consequence of the Pandora and Eve narratives.”

Women History Greek Mythology Eve Pandora

Book:Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Source: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“Men's deaths are epic, women's deaths are tragic.”

Women Greek Mythology

Book:A Thousand Ships

Source: A Thousand Ships

“And so I find myself thinking that of all the goddesses in this book, the Furies – not in their role of vengeance-goddesses but in the sense of collective, societal shame that they also personify, shame at breaking your word or behaving cruelly and dishonestly – might be the ones I would most like to see restored to a modern pantheon.”

Greek Mythology Classics

Book:Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“I see you. I see all those men who call monsters.”

Feminism Greek Mythology Retelling

Book:Stone Blind

Source: Stone Blind

“The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to read about Greek myth after a long day at work. These Muses always remind me that scientists and artists should disregard the idiotic attempts to separate us. We are all nerds, in the end.”

Science Muse Greek Mythology Arts Muses Greek Myth Nerds Nerds Or Engineers

Book:Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“According to Hesiod's Theogony, Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea is understandably consumed with grief. She consults her parents - Gaia and Ouranos, Earth and Heaven. They tell her to go to Crete to give birth to Zeus, the youngest of her children. Rhea gives birth and then plays a trick on Kronos: instead of giving him their youngest child to consume, she give him a rock, disguised as a baby. The inability to even register the difference between a god and a rock suggests that Kronos was not just a terrible father, but also an inattentive eater.”

Humor Greek Mythology Kronos

Book:Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“Euryale liked humans...She liked the way they were so prone to anxiety and haste.”

Anxiety Greek Mythology

Book:Stone Blind

Source: Stone Blind

“Zeus may wish us ill, in other words, but that doesn't mean Pandora herself is evil, any more than the lightning which Zeus hurls at those of us who displease him is evil. Lightning is neutral, neither good nor bad, however much we fear it. Perhaps we can accept that Pandora is the same, unless we choose to see her otherwise.”

History Feminism Greek Mythology

Book:Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Source: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“But Athene was no musician, and nor was she looking to play a tune. The first flute therefore sounded exactly like what it was - a reed that has been severed from it's root”

Art Greek Mythology

Book:Stone Blind

Source: Stone Blind

“The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have.”

Greek Mythology Medusa Ceto

Book:Stone Blind

Source: Stone Blind

“Aphrodite, on the other hand, saw every wedding as a small defeat. She prized love, but not the marital kind. Never the marital kind. What kind of love was that: companionship? The precursor to children?”

Greek Mythology Aphrodite

Book:A Thousand Ships

Source: A Thousand Ships

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