Natalie Haynes has followed up her interesting book on the Trojan War, A Thousand Ships, with the engrossing Pandora's Jar, a look at 10 women from Greek myths who have been seen too long from the male perspective. I've gotten through Pandora and Jocasta. I'm now up to Helen. I just wish that, for her chapter on Jocasta, she had seen Martha Graham's remarkable ballet, which frames the story from her perspective. The Oedipus in the ballet is nothing but a boy toy to Martha's grandeur, as apparently it was in real life between Graham and one of her studlier dancers.
