Date: 01 May 1995
Publisher: University Press of America
Original Languages: English
Format: Hardback::208 pages
ISBN10: 0819197521
File size: 50 Mb
File name: In-Pandora's-Jar-Lovesickness-in-Early-Greek-Poetry.pdf
Dimension: 145x 221x 17mm::376g
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In Hesiod's Works and Days, Pandora had a jar containing all manner of misery and evil. Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, who forgot the warning of his brother Prometheus and made Pandora his wife. She afterward opened the jar, from which the evils flew out over the earth. All the Ills of the World Strife, sickness, toil and myriad other ills escaped from the jar to afflict men and women forever more. Pandora managed to keep one spirit in the jar as she shut the lid, a timid sprite named Elpis, usually translated as "hope. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created Hephaestus on the Hesiod's interpretation of Pandora's story, sometimes considered as The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560 612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, Written above this figure (a convention in Greek vase painting) is the name Jump to Poetry - Two poems in English dealing with Pandora's opening of the box are in the form Shutting the lid too early, she thus "let loose all curses on mankind/ about her head identifies Pandora as an innocent Greek maiden.
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