tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32138682262947281902024-02-19T07:25:19.278-08:00Pandora’s Boxweng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-32534092651031640902012-04-13T11:44:00.003-07:002012-04-13T11:44:36.639-07:00the moral of the story‘Opening Pandora’s Box’ is a metaphor for our time. It is a story about how one<br />of two brothers, Epimetheus, is seduced by appearances and his own desires. He<br />did not have the forethought to look into the true nature of what he saw, or to<br />understand the implications of his actions beyond himself. The moral of the story<br />is that once the Earth is opened, she cannot be closed, and what we spoil we spoil<br />forever. Mining the last remaining wildernesses and the critical ecosystems of our<br />Earth is irreversible. The other brother, in the story, Prometheus, warns us that<br />hindsight is too late and hoping for the best is ignorant and impotent. What the<br />story recommends is foresight: from this come the gifts of a true civilisation and<br />right relation towards the Earth, our source of life.weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-33310497201418468902012-04-13T11:38:00.001-07:002012-04-13T11:38:27.830-07:00Opening the pandora's box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(pandora trying to close the box)<br />
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This is an engraving of Pandora trying to close the box that she had
opened out of curiosity. At left, the evils of the world taunt her as
they escape. The engraving is based on a painting by F.S. Church.<br />
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(Hesiod's poem) <br />
The more famous version of the Pandora myth comes from another of Hesiod's poems, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_and_Days" title="Works and Days">Works and Days</a></i>.
In this version of the myth (lines 60–105), Hesiod expands upon her
origin, and moreover widens the scope of the misery she inflicts on
mankind. As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods
contribute to her completion (63–82): Athena taught her needlework and
weaving (63–4); Aphrodite "shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs" (65–6); Hermes
gave her "a shameful mind and deceitful nature" (67–8); Hermes also
gave her the power of speech, putting in her "lies and crafty words"
(77–80) ; Athena then clothed her (72); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery (72–4); the Horae
adorned her with a garland crown (75). Finally, Hermes gives this woman
a name: Pandora – "All-gifted" – "because all the Olympians gave her a
gift" (81).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-7"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>
In this retelling of her story, Pandora's deceitful feminine nature
becomes the least of mankind's worries. For she brings with her a jar
(which, due to textual corruption in the sixteenth century, came to be
called a box)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-8"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-9"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> containing<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-10"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>
"burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men" (91–2),
diseases (102) and "a myriad other pains" (100). Prometheus had (fearing
further reprisals) warned his brother Epimetheus
not to accept any gifts from Zeus. But Epimetheus did not listen; he
accepted Pandora, who promptly scattered the contents of her jar. As a
result, Hesiod tells us, "the earth and sea are full of evils" (101).
One item, however, did not escape the jar (96–9):<br />
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<div class="poem">
Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house,<br />
she remained under the lip of the jar, and did not<br />
fly away. Before [she could], Pandora replaced the<br />
lid of the jar. This was the will of aegis-bearing<br />
Zeus the Cloudgatherer.<br />
</div>
</blockquote>
Hesiod does not say why hope (<i>elpis</i>) remained in the jar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-11"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><br />
Hesiod closes with this moral (105): "Thus it is not possible to escape the mind of Zeusweng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-50481658550303936012012-04-13T11:30:00.000-07:002012-04-13T11:43:23.606-07:00Hesiod's Theogony<br />
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(Hesiod)<br />
The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the <i>Theogony</i>
(ca. 8th–7th centuries BC), without ever giving the woman a name. After
humans 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. He commands Hephaestus
to mold from earth the first woman, a "beautiful evil" whose
descendants would torment the race of men. After Hephaestus does so, Athena dresses her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil, garlands and an ornate crown of silver. This woman goes unnamed in the <i>Theogony</i>, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod revisited in <i>Works and Days</i>.
When she first appears before gods and mortals, "wonder seized them" as
they looked upon her. But she was "sheer guile, not to be withstood by
men." Hesiod elaborates (590–93):<br />
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<div class="poem">
From her is the race of women and female kind:<br />
of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who<br />
live amongst mortal men to their great trouble,<br />
no helpmates in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.</div>
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Hesiod goes on to lament that men who try to avoid the evil of women by avoiding marriage will fare no better (604–7):<br />
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He reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years,<br />
and though he at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives,<br />
yet, when he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them.</div>
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Hesiod concedes that occasionally a man finds a good wife, but still (609) "evil contends with good."weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-74139218336024424402012-04-13T11:26:00.000-07:002012-04-13T11:28:25.655-07:00Pandora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(pandora)<br />
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In Greek mythology, Pandora (ancient Greek, <span lang="grc">Πανδώρα</span>, derived from <span lang="grc">πᾶς</span> "all" and <span lang="grc">δῶρον</span> "gift", thus "all-gifted" or "all-giving")<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-0"></a></sup> was the first woman.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"></sup> As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. 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". Her other name, inscribed against her figure on a white-ground <i>kylix</i> in the British Museum,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-2"></a></sup> is Anesidora, "she who sends up gifts,"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-3"></a></sup> <i>up</i> implying "from below" within the earth. According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (<i>pithos</i>), 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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-4"></a></sup> She opened the jar out of simple curiosity and not as a malicious act.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#cite_note-5"></a></sup><br />
The myth of Pandora is ancient, appears in several distinct Greek
versions, and has been interpreted in many ways. In all literary
versions, however, the myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world. In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his <i>Theogony</i> (briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570) and in <i>Works and Days</i>,
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 <i>Iliad</i>:<br />
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. He for whom Zeus
the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good
and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Zeus sends none but evil gifts
will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will
pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face
of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men<br />
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(pandora box in realities)<br /><br />
Today, Pandora’s box means a source of troubles. When we talk about
opening Pandora’s box, we use it as a metaphor to mean that we may not
know what we are getting ourselves into! Sometimes, that we do not
always know how something we have started may end, that we do not know
the consequences of our actions.weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-26091462764283212102012-04-13T11:15:00.001-07:002012-04-13T11:15:26.660-07:00How did the myth arise?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It arose as a way of explaining why dreadful things happened, such as people getting sick and dying. <br />
As in many origin myths, man had lived in a world without worry – until
this jar / box was opened, which contained ills for mankind. Zeus knew
that Pandora’s curiosity would mean that she could not stop herself from
opening it, especially when he had told her that she must not do so! <br />
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Many other myths also explain the ills of the world by saying they are caused by human disobedience of a god’s instructions.<br />
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(Though some versions of this story say that the box was a real gift and
the box held good things for mankind, which Pandora let escape from the
box, and fly away forever, only catching Hope.)<br />
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Even Hope itself has been argued about by scholars – not everyone
agreeing that it is a great good – that maybe Zeus meant it as an evil
also – otherwise it would not have been in a jar of evil. Others believe
that Zeus may have relented a little, and put Hope in to help mankind
through the hard times that the other ‘gifts’ would bring.weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-35715514987507174642012-04-13T11:09:00.001-07:002012-04-13T11:11:38.803-07:00different kind of pandora's box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(original pandora ' box)<br />
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( Different version of pandora's box)weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-1386010083633586172012-04-13T10:56:00.000-07:002012-04-13T10:56:01.768-07:00Cultural Myths - Pandora's Box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <strong style="font-weight: normal;">myth of Pandora's box</strong> is considered one of the most descriptive myths of human behavior in Greek mythology.
Ancient Greeks used this myth not only to instruct themselves about the
weaknesses of humans, but also to explain several misfortunes of the
human race.weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-42965631069320500092012-04-13T09:03:00.002-07:002012-04-13T09:20:43.062-07:00Story of pandora's box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pandora was given a box or a jar, called “pithos” in Greek. Gods told
her that the box contained special gifts from them but she was not
allowed to open the box ever. Then Hermes took her to Epimetheus,
brother of Prometheus, to be his wife. Prometheus had advised Epimetheus
not to accept anything from the Gods, but he saw Pandora and was
astonished by her beauty, thus he accepted her right away.<br />
Pandora was trying to tame her curiosity, but at the end she could
not hold herself anymore; she opened the box and all the illnesses and
hardships that gods had hidden in the box started coming out. Pandora
was scared, because she saw all the evil spirits coming out and tried to
close the box as fast as possible, closing Hope inside.weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3213868226294728190.post-22519679348762674312012-04-09T18:13:00.001-07:002012-04-13T11:54:28.112-07:00PANDORA'S BOX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pandora's Box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora's creation in Hesiod's <i>Works and Days</i>.The "box" was actually a large jar (πίθος <i>pithos</i>) given to Pandora (Πανδώρα) ("all-gifted", "all-giving"),which contained all the evils
of the world. When Pandora opened the jar, all its contents except for
one item were released into the world. The one remaining item was Hope.Today, to open Pandora's box means to create evil that cannot be undone.</div>
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In classical Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on Earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the God of craftsmanship, to create her, so he did—using water and Earth.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box#cite_note-4"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>The gods endowed her with many gifts: Athena clothed her, Aphrodite gave her beauty, and Hermes speech. <br />
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(Prometheus stole fire from heaven) <br />
When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Epimetheus,
Prometheus' brother. With her, Pandora was given a beautiful container
which she was not to open under any circumstance. Impelled by her
curiosity given to her by the gods, Pandora opened it, and all evil
contained therein escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to
close the container, but the whole contents had escaped, except for one
thing that lay at the bottom, which was the angel of Hope named Astrea.
Pandora was deeply saddened by what she had done, and was afraid that
she would have to face Zeus' wrath, since she had failed her duty;
however, Zeus did not punish her, because he knew this would happen. <br />weng chuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836954482556870150noreply@blogger.com0