One of my favorite things about archeology is the way everyday life intrudes on it. The Greek artifacts Roberta Beach Jacobson discovered while clearing out her cat litter dump site are a great example.
Pandora: A Tragicomic Greek Romp, despite involving Greek mythological characters in non-canonical plots (a pet peeve of mine) sounds worth seeing. The reviewer observes that "the characters throw ... curve balls at archetypes"; and that to me is a salient feature of the original Greek myths. Look into a Greek mythological figure, such as Heracles or Odysseus, and you will find them behaving in completely opposite ways in various myths. It's just that usually one myth or set of myths has become dominant.
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