HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pithos, Barley Water
4 Oct 2018
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Pandora was beautiful; and brings pain to men. Pandora will live among humans and cannot be trusted (she is a trap, a weapon) Pandora herself is like a vessel, and her jar is a vessel that has bad things in it, called. A pithos is a womb, and from it all the bad things arise (also an idea of a uterus), represents life and death. When humans lived among the gods, this was during the time of kronos. They lived like gods; without labour or war. Hesiod is just a persona; he may just be made up of the verb to throw or to emit . Zeus marries his daughter to his brother. Dread persephone associated with the underworld. Persephone queen of the dead; is abducted by hades and taken to the underworld. She must return after being retrieved by hermes, because she had eaten a pomegranate seed.
