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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
Series 12
Episode 7 of 7

Natalie tells the story of Euripides' Medea, the sorceress who enacted the ultimate revenge on the husband who betrayed her, to a rapt audience at the Hay Festival.

'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about ancient Greece and Rome.

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21:00
BBC Radio 4

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003187y

#NowReading #Novel #Medusa #GreekMythology

"I see you. I see all those who men call monsters.
And I see the men who call them that. Call themselves heroes, of course.
I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone.
But it's enough. Enough to know that the hero isn't the one who's kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes - not always, but sometimes - he is monstrous."

- from Stone Blind: Medusa's Story by #NatalieHaynes (2022)

Move over, Odysseus: time for the women of ancient Greece to have their moment in the sun | Natalie Haynes
By Natalie Haynes

The hottest ticket in theatreland will soon be Cate Blanchett in Electra/Persona. Caged female rage continues to capture audiences

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/16/odysseus-odyssey-cate-blanchett-electra-persona-women-ancient-greece

#Theatre #TheOdyssey #Women #Film #Stage #Culture #CateBlanchett #TheGuardian #NatalieHaynes

Picked up the indie edition of the new #NatalieHaynes from SmallCityBooks, & got a free promo tee (none left, slowcoaches). Thanks!

#september #septemberwrapup #septemberreads #booklover #bookaddict #bookstagram #instareads #hexed #kevinhearne #midureads #nataliehaynes #nataliehaynesstandsupfortheclassics #therising #iantregillis #thealchemywars #davidmichie #thefourpawsofspiritualsuccess #dalailamascat #monthlywrapup

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Saturnalia

Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00268lf

Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0kfdknk.mp3

#Saturnalia #NatalieHaynes #Comedy

Review of "Divine Might" (4 stars): Excellent essays

https://bookwyrm.social/user/Scofisticated/review/5851644

Standing up for Cleopatra:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020xv4
#Cleopatra #NatalieHaynes
#history #Greece #Egypt #Rome

Looking forward to seeing #SusanCooper and #NatalieHaynes chatting about The Dark Is Rising and Other Stories at the #BritishLibrary on Friday. I’ll be tuning in online to watch - and #online tickets are still available to buy. You can watch online for up to 48 hours after. https://www.bl.uk/events/the-dark-is-rising-and-other-stories-susan-cooper-and-natalie-haynes-in-conversation #DarkIsRising #Fantasy #Classics #Myth #Myths #Mythology #Storytelling #Fiction #Bookstodon #Streaming #TheDarkIsRising #Literature

Best Start the Week episode ever, this morning?
@bbcradio4 #DemonCopperhead #BarbaraKingsolver #MichaelRosen #NatalieHaynes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mc1k

Book recs:

Just read WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS by #NanaNkweti (an amazing short story collection) and STONE BLIND by #NatalieHaynes (a retelling of the Medusa myth) this weekend. Highly, highly recommend both. Both with compelling prose (Nkweti's ability to write distinctive narrators for each story and Haynes' fresh look at Greek mythology, especially with Athena).

#AmReading A Thousand Ships by #NatalieHaynes
This is the #TrojanWar as told from the perspectives of the women.

Haynes mines #Homer, #Virgil, #Ovid, #Euripides, and #Aeschylus for the women who circle the edges of the story, plotting, prophesying, waiting, grieving. Most memorable among them are the inconsolable, far-seeing #Cassandra, the acerbic #Penelope, and #Calliope, the muse who insists that this war be told her way.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/23/a-thousand-ships-natalie-haynes-review

'Ik zie jullie. Ik zie ieder van jullie die door de mensen monsters worden genoemd.
En ik zie de mannen die hen zo noemen. Zij noemen zichzelf natuurlijk helden.
Ik zie ze maar heel even. Dan zijn ze weg.'
14 februari verschijnt de nieuwe roman van Natalie Haynes, De blik van Medusa (vertaling Frits van der Waa en Henny Corver). Lees bij ons een fragment!
https://www.athenaeum.nl/leesfragmenten/2023/de-blik-van-medusa

#literatuur #medusa #oudheid #nataliehaynes

More events being announced today for a weekend festival to lift the January blues. Contemporary arts meets classical antiquity in Dublin and online.
#arts #theatre #literature #classics #books #reading #Dublin #NatalieHaynes #MaryBeard

https://www.classicsnow.ie

Epic win! Why women are lining up to reboot the classics https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/epic-win-why-women-are-lining-up-to-reboot-the-classics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#PatBarker
#NatalieHaynes
#MadelineMiller
#ilias

This is not a #podcast one should listen to in public. While shopping downtown today, I kept laughing out loud at this irreverent account of #Homer's #Odyssey.

Happily there's an entire podcast series of #NatalieHaynes Stands up for the Classics. I shall be downloading more!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brj5

I'm working with a #festival who are bringing #NatalieHaynes to #Dublin next year. I'm very excited, but sworn to secrecy for now