Medusa wasn’t always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn’t always an adulterer, Pandora wasn’t ever a villain. Even characters that were outright villainous – Medea, Clytemnestra, Phaedra – were often far more nuanced than they first appeared.
I highly, highly recommend Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati. The unending tragedies she was inflicted with, and her rightful feminine rage, just amazing how it was bastardized and manipulated into her …
