CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Margaret Atwood, Pithos, Divine Retribution
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Cla 219 women in antiquity: h schele. Epitome of evil, source of female wickedness, revenge on prometheus for helping mankind (stole fire) Pandora = all-gifted/ gifted all evil: she was a gift to epimetheus (afterthought), brother of prometheus, fashioned by the gods, opened a pithos (jar) not a box. Didactic (teaching) ethos ~ works and days, hesiod: contains a passage regarding pandora, trouble and hardship born from pandora"s act and obviously she"s a woman (very misogynistic) Motivational tactic: **hope in greek also means expectations which means that keeping it in allows us to have a better life because it prevents us from knowing more (or wanting to / prevent access to it) Expectations of evil (hope for evil?) retained so it leaves us not knowing what"s to come whether it"s good or bad. Most popular woman, most beautiful instigator of the trojan war. Sparta (and brother of the mycenean king, agamemnon: so begins the trojan war .
