The more famous version of the Pandora myth comes from another of Hesiod's poems, Works and Days. Hesiod concedes that occasionally a man finds a good wife, but still (609) "evil contends with good."
Yet, when he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them. He reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years,Īnd though he at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives, But she was "sheer guile, not to be withstood by men." Hesiod elaborates (590–93): When she first appears before gods and mortals, "wonder seized them" as they looked upon her. This woman goes unnamed in the Theogony, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod revisited in Works and Days.
After Hephaestus does so, Athena dressed her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil, garlands and an ornate crown of gold. He commands Hephaestus to mold from earth the first woman, a "beautiful evil" whose descendants would torment the race of men. After humans have received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give men a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given. 8th–7th centuries BCE), without ever giving the woman a name. The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (ca.
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The immortals know no care, yet the lot they spin for man is full of sorrow on the floor of Zeus' palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones. In the seventh century BCE, Hesiod, both in his Theogony (briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad: In all literary versions, however, the myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world. The myth of Pandora is ancient, appears in several distinct Greek versions, and has been interpreted in many ways. She opened the jar out of simple curiosity and not as a malicious act. According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar ( pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box" (see below), releasing all the evils of mankind- although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod - leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again. Her other name, inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum, is Anesidora, "she who sends up gifts," up implying "from below" within the earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of mankind for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts". As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. In Greek mythology, Pandora (ancient Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν "all" and δῶρον "gift", thus "all-gifted", "all-endowed") was the first woman. 1915 illustration of Pandora by Helen Stratton.
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