Each of these illustrations is mentioned in Natalie Haynes book, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek myths. The page numbers refer other book. The links are where I found the illustrations on the web.
[…] Mary Beard is another classicist whose short book, Women and Power: A Manifesto, shows how classical culture has been wielded both for and against women, most infamously in the depictions of Trump as Perseus holding up the head of Hilary Clinton as Medusa. Haynes has a lot to say about this as well in Pandora’s Jar […]
[…] Mary Beard is another classicist whose short book, Women and Power: A Manifesto, shows how classical culture has been wielded both for and against women, most infamously in the depictions of Trump as Perseus holding up the head of Hilary Clinton as Medusa. Haynes has a lot to say about this as well in Pandora’s Jar […]