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Натали Хейнс

Natalie Haynes

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MarvelousMsA

12 августа 2023 г., 21:56

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We do not live in a world of heroes and villains, and if we believe we do, we should really consider the possibility that we haven’t thought about things properly.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

12 августа 2023 г., 21:55

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Pandora is an agent of change, and the embodiment of the will of Zeus. She is not an unmitigated evil, as her box-opening reputation might have you believe. She is dual: kalon kakon, beautiful and ugly, good and evil. What Pandora brings to mortals is complexity.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

12 августа 2023 г., 20:26

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The easiest person to fool is the one who wants to be fooled.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

11 августа 2023 г., 23:17

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If you hurt her, she will make you regret it. Her revenge will exceed your original wrong and no one will ever be able to say of her that she let her enemies get away with something.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

10 августа 2023 г., 17:48

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The wholesome pursuit has been twisted to murderous ends.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

10 августа 2023 г., 17:34

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This liminal moment – where he is both returned and not yet in his home, ostensibly reunited with his wife but without sincerity or intimacy, victor over Troy and yet vanquished by his wife in the matter of the tapestries, alive and yet doomed – finally comes to its close.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

10 августа 2023 г., 17:33

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And now we see this man step down from his chariot, barefoot, and walk into his palace over a river of glistening red. Even those who don’t know his story cannot fail to see that he walks through blood to get home.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

10 августа 2023 г., 16:51

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Women are stronger together than apart, even ones with superpowers.

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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MarvelousMsA

22 июня 2023 г., 19:31

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“Because the Spartan king had lost his queen, a hundred queens lost their kings.”

A Thousand Ships

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MarvelousMsA

22 июня 2023 г., 19:31

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“Waiting is the cruellest thing I have ever endured. Like bereavement, but with no certainty.”

A Thousand Ships

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MarvelousMsA

22 июня 2023 г., 19:30

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“He loses his wife so he stirs up an army to bring her back to him, costing countless lives and creating countless widows, orphans and slaves. Oenone loses her husband and she raises their son. Which of those is the more heroic act?”

A Thousand Ships

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MarvelousMsA

22 июня 2023 г., 19:29

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“But this is a women's war, just as much as it is the men's, and the poet will look upon their pain - the pain of the women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men - and he will tell it, or he will tell nothing at all. They have waited long enough for their…

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MarvelousMsA

22 июня 2023 г., 19:29

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“When a war was ended, the men lost their lives. But the women lost everything else.”

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MarvelousMsA

22 июня 2023 г., 19:28

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“It does hurt, I whispered. It should hurt. She isn't a footnote, she's a person. And she - all the Trojan women - should be memorialised as much as any other person.”

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