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 Dinesh
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PANDORA

Pandora has been particularly ill-served by history, even relative to Eve. Eve did at least listen to the snake and eat the thing she’d been told was dangerous. Pandora did not open a box, either from curiosity or malevolence. Indeed the box doesn’t appear in her story until Hesiod’s ‘Works and Days’ was translated into Latin by Eramus in the sixteenth century, well over two millennia after Hisod was writing in Greek

. . . .Epimetheus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus#:~:text=In%20Greek%20mythology%2C%20Epimetheus%20(%2F,%22)%20is%20inept%20and%20foolish.
received Pandora and the carefree life of mortals is at an end. Before this point, Hisod explains, men had lived on the earth free from evils, free from hard work and from disease. But once Pandora takes the huge lid off her jar, that is all over, and mournful cares are not spread among mortals. Only ‘Elpis’ (hope) remains inside, retained under the lid of the jar, her unbroken home. ~ Page 13

. . . .Escaping from this jar are female personifications of various good things: Virtue, Peace, Good Fortune, Health. As is consistently the case in almost every version of the short. Hope is retained. ~ Page 19

PANDORA'S JAR
5 months ago. Edited 5 months ago.
 Dinesh
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Angered by the defiance of man, Zeus devised the trip of a beautiful woman, Pandora, crafted from a mix of earth and water by the divine blacksmith Hephaistos (Vulcanus in Latin) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus Tomake her look like a goddess, Athena and Aphrodite adorned Pandora with the tricks of cosmetics and all sorts of dazzling jewels, clothes, and ornaments. Both to fulfill Zeus’s thirst for vengeance, Pandora had a seductive beauty that attracted with irresistible force man’s desire. Zeus’s diabolical plan was completed when Pandora, having become man’s steady companion, opened the jar tht had been given to her before being sent to earth with the command never to open it up. In the short amount of time in which Pandora, moved by an irresistible curiosity, held the lid of the jar open, all sorts of disasters spread into the world. By the time Pandora closed the jar only Hope remained trapped within the container. ` Page 25

KNOW THYSELF
4 months ago. Edited 4 months ago.
 Dinesh
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In Hisod’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod account of humanity’s mythic origins, ‘Works and days’ man was first created alone, with no female mate to accompany him on his journey through the world. Woman would make her first appearance not as man’s helpmate and partner, but as his punishment

There was nothing inherently evil about Pandora. Although she had been warned against opening the python, it was her innocent curiosity – a characteristic given by Hera –that led to her downfall. She could not resist peeping inside the jar, she pulled back the lit, and all the ills and misfortunes of the world flew out; Hunger, Sickness, Loss, Loneliness and Death. Horrified, Pandora hastily pushed the lid back on – just in time to prevent Hope from escaping. With hope the world could still preserve, des;ite the adversity that the jealous Zeus had inflicted on mankind.
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