Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

by Natalie Haynes

This Helen owned a diglosson arnion – ‘a bilingual sheep’.39 It’s impossible to see how this Helen isn’t the most famous woman in the ancient world, when one comes across a bilingual sheep so rarely.

That she uses the precise tool which poets and scribes have used to create her myth, to tell her story kindly and unkindly, fairly or