Pandora of Athens 399 B.C.

by Barry Denenberg and Barry Denenburg

Book Overview

In this departure from our first person diaries, we leap into ancient times in a third person novel filled with action, adventure, and glory -- all the drama of life in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 043964982X
• ISBN13: 9780439649827
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9

Customer Reviews

"Pandora Of Athens"

Pandora of Athens is an outstanding book.This book is about Pandora struggling having problems with her mother dieying and having a new step-mother and worrying about her having to get married at the age of 14,Intill one day when she went to the fountain and met this guy and her whole life from then changed .This book is amazing and i recommend that you read it. By Latisha

>>*^*^ Pandora of Athens^*^*<<

It was a great book I thought. It talked lots about her feelings, and than this guy changed her life just like in "Pharoah's Daughter." This other guy named Socrates he ends up going to jail i did not get that part in the book.But it was a pretty good book I say by Tyra

Shows Promise for Interesting Series...

Pandora of Athens was very well done. The reader may be lost in a few parts, but the basic plot is beautiful. It illustrates the average life of a thirteen year old girl living in Greece in 399 B.C. Pandora lives in an era in which women have few rights and are not respected, which she resents. She also resents the fact that upon her fourteenth birthday she will have to marry a man twice her age, her cousin, who is quite lothesome himself. A good addition to the collection of Historical Fiction. It shows promise for a one-to-watch kind of series.

Good but wished it were longer

Pandora is thirteen-years-old and lives in 399 B.C. Athens, where life for women and their rights are mostly denied. Pandora deeply loathes the fact that she has no say in her life and that on her fourteenth birthday she will have to marry a man she deeply despises, her cousin, Menander, who also happens to be twice her age and very monotone. Her life takes a change though when she meets the Wise One while fetching water. Socrates is a very respected greek scholar and he tells her things that will profoundly change Pandora's life forever. Things seem possible now including marrying Phoenix, Socrates' young disciple, whom Pandora adores. However as Socrate's famed trial begins, Pandora finds herself mingled in the intrigue and politics of Ancient Greece and having to choose between her true love and the stability of someone she doesn't love. I enjoyed this first book in the new series Life and Times. Unfortunately the book should have been a tad longer because the ending came very quickly. It should have been more developed. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this series as it comes out and I think readers who enjoy girl protagonist and ancient history will enjoy this book very much.

Promising start to a new series.

Thirteen-year-old Pandora, living in Athens in the year 399 B.C., resents that as a young girl of ancient Greece, she has no say at all in her future. She is already betrothed, to a man she despises, and who is more then twice her age -- her stupid, useless cousin Menander. And as soon as she turns fourteen, she will be forced to marry him. But one day while Pandora is fetching water, she meets the philosopher Socrates, and what he tells her changes her life forever. She is even more determined to determine the course of her own future when she meets his young disciple, Phoenix, whom she knows she would marry if only she had a choice. Now Pandora must choose between a secure but joyless future, and throwing away everything she has for a chance at happiness. I enjoyed this look at life for a young teenage girl in ancient Athens, but I did feel it was a bit too short, in particular I would have liked to see a more developed ending as it was a bit abrupt. I'd still recommend this to readers who are interested in historical fiction set in the ancient world, and I look forward to reading more from this new series.