Takže pro smrtelníky jsme nestvůry. Protože umíme létat a jsme silné. Bojí se nás, proto nás nazývají takhle.Medúsa je jediná smrtelná bytost v rodině bohů. Vyrůstá u svých sester Gorgon a postupně si začíná uvědomovat, že je jediná, kdo se mění, a také jediná, komu lze ublížit. Vymezený čas smrtelníka navíc jejímu životu dodává na naléhavosti, jakou nikdo z jejích příbuzných nikdy nepozná.Když se Poseidón, bůh moří, dopustí v Athénině chrámu neodpustitelného činu, bohyně se pomstí na té, která se nemůže bránit – a navěky Medúsu promění. Místo vlasů se jí kolem hlavy kroutí hadi a její pohled dokáže změnit jakékoli živé stvoření v kámen. Je to ale schopnost, kterou nelze ovládat. Medúsa se proto nemůže na nic a nikoho podívat, aniž by mu nepřinesla zkázu. Je odsouzená k životu ve stínech a tmě.Dokud na svou výpravu za získáním Gorgoniny hlavy nevyrazí Perseus…

We meet Hera, who, whilst most often known for enacting vicious, creative revenge on the women – mortal or otherwise – who catch the wandering eye of her husband Zeus, turns out not to be such a villain after all. ***** We meet Demeter, a mother who will go to any lengths, no matter the cost, to retrieve her daughter Persephone from Hades’ clutches. ***** We’ll be introduced to The Furies, three women who will literally go to the ends of the earth to enact bloody vengeance but who, surprisingly, are the goddesses who can teach us the most about the way we live now. ***** Examining the role of these goddesses and more, Divine Might will change everything you thought you knew about our most ancient stories. Full of fire, fury and devotion, Natalie Haynes brings the divine women of Olympia kicking and screaming into the modern age.

In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before. 'Witty, gripping, ruthless' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter'Beautiful and moving' - Neil Gaiman'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength.They fear us, so they call us monsters'Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her Gorgon sisters, she begins to realize that she is the only one who experiences change, the only one who can be hurt. When Poseidon commits an unforgiveable act against Medusa in the temple of Athene, the goddess takes her revenge where she can: on his victim.Medusa is changed forever - writhing snakes for hair and her gaze now turns any living creature to stone. She can look at nothing without destroying it. Desperate to protect her beloved sisters, Medusa condemns herself to a life of shadows.Until Perseus embarks upon a quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . .

Smrteľníci nás považujú za príšery, lebo sme mocné a vieme lietať. Volajú nás tak, pretože sa nás boja. Medúza sa narodila do božskej rodiny, no na rozdiel od svojich sestier je smrteľná. Zakrátko si uvedomí, že ako jediná z nich starne, mení sa a cítiť slabosť. Vedomie, že sa raz pominie, dodáva jej konaniu naliehavosť, ktorú jej príbuzní nikdy neokúsia. Keď Poseidón, vládca morí, znesvätí Aténin chrám, urazená bohyňa sa pomstí nevinnej obeti a naveky zmení Medúzin život. Úbohá dievčina sa desí vlastného odrazu – namiesto vlasov sa jej na hlave zvíjajú hady a jediným pohľadom mení všetko živé na kameň. Nemôže viac hľadieť na svojich milovaných bez toho, aby ich zahubila, tak sa dobrovoľne odsúdi na život v tieňoch a samote, aby zahatala cestu svojmu vražednému hnevu. Všetko sa však zmení, keď sa Perseus vydá na osudovú výpravu s cieľom získať hlavu Gorgony... Toto je príbeh mladej ženy, z ktorej sa stala príšera – až na to, že ňou v skutočnosti nikdy nebola.

The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling women's stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora - the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world - was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate. Now, in Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, Natalie Haynes - broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist - redresses this imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.

''Passionate and gripping'' – Madeline Miller, bestselling author of CirceA powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone that casts fresh light on the women the myths overlooked. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes.My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .Jocasta is just fifteen when she is ordered to marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. But it is her duty to produce an heir, who will alter the course of her life forever.Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents'' tragic deaths, it had been the one place she felt safe. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it . . .''A wonderful and inventive take on an ancient tale'' – The Times''Haynes’s fascination with this long vanished world is evident in every line'' – The Guardian''Glorious, gripping and brutal . . . I loved it'' – Victoria Derbyshire, journalist and broadcaster-Praise for Natalie Haynes:''Witty, gripping, ruthless'' – Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid''s Tale, via X''The great champion of women in Greek myth'' – Daily Mail‘A fierce feminist exploration of female rage, written with wit and empathy’ – Glamour

In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women embroiled in the legendary war. Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, in A Thousand Ships Natalie Haynes puts the women, girls and goddesses at the centre of the story.

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