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    1. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman created by Zeus as an act of revenge against Prometheus for stealing fire from Olympus. 2. The gods gifted Pandora with beauty and charms that could manipulate men, like a voice and mind that could deceive. 3. When Pandora's jar was opened, all evils and hardships were released upon mankind, with only hope left inside. Pandora represented the end of the carefree life for men and the introduction of work, sickness, and death.

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    1. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman created by Zeus as an act of revenge against Prometheus for stealing fire from Olympus. 2. The gods gifted Pandora with beauty and charms that could manipulate men, like a voice and mind that could deceive. 3. When Pandora's jar was opened, all evils and hardships were released upon mankind, with only hope left inside. Pandora represented the end of the carefree life for men and the introduction of work, sickness, and death.

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    Women of Legend [Greece]

    Pandora
    Helen 1. Erin disrupts wedding of Peleus and Thetis by throwing and
    apple in the middle of the wedding.
    2. All goddesses thought they deserved the golden apple.
    Greeks believed that:
    • most beautiful woman in the world 3. They asked Zeus to judge, who asked the mortal, Paris.
    • human race was made
    chose Menelaus, of Sparta,
    king of only mento 4. They each tried to bribe Paris (youngest prince of Troy).
    •bemen didn’t grow old or die and there
    her husband → Hera (queen of Gods): power and domination
    was no disease
    • daughter or hardship
    of Zeus and Leda (mortal, → Athena (of wisdom): glory in war and wisdom
    •wife
    theof
    first women was created to punish
    Tyndareus) → Aphrodite (of love): most beautiful girl in the world
    mankind
    • Tyndareusfor stealing
    made allfire
    suitors swear an 5. Paris picked Aphrodite, and therefore won Helen.
    •oath
    Pandora
    to wage marked
    war ontheanyone
    end ofwho
    time of 6. Helen was stolen from Menelaus and the Trojan War began
    easy and plenty
    threatened their for men with Helen
    marriage as Menelaus swore an oath to protect their marriage.

    SOURCE: Homer, Iliad


    1. Iris, disguised as Helen’s sister-in-law, Laudice, brings
    Iris: goddess messenger news to Helen – Paris/Menalaus duel
    Menelaus: Helen’s husband 2. News causes her to feel longing for Menelaus, parents
    Priam: king of Troy; Paris’s father and homeland – taken unwillingly?
    Paris: youngest prince of Troy; mortal 3. Elders suggest that though she’s lovely, she causes too
    many problems and struggles; objectified by old men as
    being beautiful but not worth cost of war and the trouble of people; described as a curse by them
    4. Priam says Helen is not to blame in his eyes, the Gods are; asks her about warriors + information
    5. Helen says she wishes she hadn’t chosen to leave her home for Paris, would’ve chosen death; answers
    Priam’s inquieries/ questions anyways; self-centered? feeling sorry for herself?

    SOURCE: Euripides, Helen


    Proteus: king of Egypt – has just died
    Psamathe: Proteus’s wife; a nymph
    Theoclymenus: son of Proteus; now king • Helen is proud of her homeland’s fame
    • even Helen herself isn’t aware of her birth story,
    1. describes how she was promised to Paris but is aware that there’s different version
    2. describes her beauty as misfortune – only brought unhappiness – used by men + Gods all her life
    3. explains that Hera was upset she wasn’t picked in the competition, so allowed for Paris’s return to Troy, but
    not with a version that was really Helen – therefore, their marriage was invalid/ forbidden. Paris didn’t notice
    the ghost version – he’s focused on looks more than personality, and was too busy with war (war is not about
    women, but what they represent)

     suggests war wasn’t to do with Helen, but Zeus being worried about human overpopulation
     Helen has a lot of respect for Proteus, similar to, respect for Priam in Homer, Iliad
     Helen comes across as a good, faithful wife, who wants to be chaste
     everything she does is for Menelause and to preserve chastity

    1. Women of Legend [Greece]

    Pandora: ‘all gifts’


    first woman; sent to mankind by Zeus as a punishment
    Zeus: king of Gods
    son of Kronos; brother of Poseidon, Hades, Hera (wife)
    Prometheus: ‘forethought’
    a Titan, but sides with the Gods during war, so was
    Hermes: messenger of Gods
    gift of ‘bitch’s mind and thievish nature’
    Athena: goddess of wisdom and war
    gift of weaving, crafts, clothes and style
    Aphrodite: goddess of love and beauty
    gift of ‘charm’ and ‘desire’
    Prometheus’s Tricks
    1. cow trick
     presented Zeus with two
    offerings (finest cuts of beef in
    stomach of a cow and cow
    bones disguised in a layer of fat
    2. fire trick
    – which Zeus picked)
     Zeus was furious after the cow trick so hid fire
    Zeusasked
    ∴ humans
    Hephaestus
    keep(god of parts
    edible metalwork
    of + craftsmen) to shape Pandora out of earth and water). Punish
    mankindanimal
    by giving them something they’d welcome  butPrometheus
    would turn stole
    out toa be
    spark
    the of Zeus’s
    cause fire from
    of their destruction.
    sacrifice + burn inedible
    Many gods contributed by giving various Olympus
    gifts to +
    makebrought
    her it to
    appealing earth
    to for mankind
    mankind.
    bones and the attractive fat
     Zeus was even angrier + resulted in Pandora
    Aphrodite charm, desire ability to manipulate, good company, objectifying, pretty
    Zeus her voice, her name use her voice to manipulate and decieve
    Hemes bitch’s mind, theivish nature has ability to manipulate and decieve
    Athena weaving, crafts, clothing/style staying indoors, domestication, provide for household

    SOURCE: Creation of Pandora Vase


     Pandora: stiff; central; passive; unusually depicted face on (usually side profile)
     satyrs: half-men, half-goat; dancing; drinking; sex; represents birth of sexual desire
     Poseidon, Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, Zeus, Hermes

    SOURCE: Hesiod, Works and Days


    (an origin story for how women/evil came into the world)

    1. Zeus’s revenge: gives men a curse (first description of Pandora); + Pandora was created by the
    men will think it’s a gift and welcome it, but it’s destruction/ curse Gods and given gifts in both
    2. Pandora represents all women – human in speech and strength but + Aphrodite, Zeus, Hermes, and
    divine in beauty Athena present in both
    3. Hephaestus made Pandora; gifts given
    4. Golden age men lived in ended; all –evils released on
    Hephaestus notmankind;
    on vase only
    hope left in the jar – no satyrs in Hesiod’s version
    → hope isn’t released, as ultimately humans Ares
    – Poseidon, have not
    no hope?
    present in
    → we will always have hope somewhere
    Hesiod’s version of an
    as it’s not evil?
    Pandora

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