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Episode 202: The Myth of Pandora in Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days. Zeus’s Revenge against Humanity: the Artificially Made Woman, Pandora.
Hesiod, a partisan of Zeus, casts Prometheus, the antagonist of Zeus, in a negative light. Zeus’s revenge against humanity is Pandora, an artificially-constructed woman given to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother. She opens a jar (“box” is a mistranslation), and all evils fly out. Theories that Pandora is a patriarchal distortion of an original Goddess myth.
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By Michael Dolzani
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Hesiod, a partisan of Zeus, casts Prometheus, the antagonist of Zeus, in a negative light. Zeus’s revenge against humanity is Pandora, an artificially-constructed woman given to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother. She opens a jar (“box” is a mistranslation), and all evils fly out. Theories that Pandora is a patriarchal distortion of an original Goddess myth.