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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
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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