Thursday, October 7, 2010

Pandora's Jar

Pandora's jar more commonly know in modern interpretations of the myth as Pandora's box. Pandora or woman, was created for the purpose of bringing ill fortune to mankind. She opened the jar that contained all the misfortunes of the world and one good hope. She opened it she let out all the misfortunes but keeping in the one good, hope.'For formerly the tribes of men on earth lived remote from ills, without harsh toil and the grievous sickness that are deadly to men. But the woman unstopped the jar and let it all out, and brought geim cares upon mankind. Only hope remained there inside in her secure dwelling, under the lip of the jar, and did not fly out, because the woman put the lid back in time by the providence of Zeus the cloud-gattherer who bears the aegis.' The message of this myth as Hesiod states is 'there is no way to evade the purpose of Zeus.'