frank wedekind was the author of the mythical story pandora's box.
frank wedekind was the author of the mythical story pandora's box.
who is the author of the mythical story pandora's box?
frank wedekind
the more famous version of the pandora myth comes from another of hesiod's poems, "works and days". 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 humanity. 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 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). (in greek, "pandora" has an active rather than a passive meaning; hence, pandora properly means "all-giving." the implications of this mistranslation are explored in "all-giving pandora: mythic inversion?" below.) in this retelling of her story, pandora's deceitful feminine nature becomes the least of humanity's worries. for she brings with her a jar (which, due to textual corruption in the sixteenth century, came to be called a box) containing "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):
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pandora's box refers to the container opened by the greek mythological woman pandora releasing all the evils of humanity into the world.









































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bullet::::- "pandora's box" (play), a 1904 german play ("die büchse der pandora") by frank wedekind









































bullet::::- "pandora's box" (1929 film), a film by g. w. pabst, starring louise brooks









































bullet::::- "pandora's box" (2008 film), a turkish drama directed by yeşim ustaoğlu









































bullet::::- "pandora's box" (2017 film), a sci-fi television film starring corin nemec; originally titled "doomsday device"
pandora's box (disambiguation)