Antigone Rising
Book description
A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce.
The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over misogyny while omitting the…
Why read it?
1 author picked Antigone Rising as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Thoughtful, personal, passionate, insightful, and humane. This is the book I wish I could write.
Helen Morales puts a pin in the lazy “glory that was Greece” trope and gives us the darker side of antiquity and its influence, showing us how stories have been used to enslave bodies and tame minds, to belittle and exclude. But this plasticity is what also makes Greek myth a potentially restorative force.
Helen’s message is that such capacity for continual reinvention gives the ultimate power to the teller of tales, whoever she might be.
From Greta's list on proving that Greek myth (still) matters.
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