CLA 2323 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 - Anthropogony, Pandora and the Flood
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As a result of the theft of ore, zeus orders that. Prometheus is chained to a rock or pillar and send an eagle to devour his liver. Ordered the creation of the kalon kakon the beautiful evil" as a punishment. Zeus punishment to mankind from hesiod"s works and days. Hephaestus mixed earth and water put in it a voice and the power to move. Athena, taught her to weave and dressed her. Aphrodite pour charm and painful strong desire. Hermes put in her breast lies and persuasive words and cunning ways. They named the girl pandora, for the gifts which all the gods had given her, this ruin of mankind. Then zeus sent the gift to epimetheus. But now the woman opened up the cask and scattered pains and evils among men. Pandora"s container and the motif of the looking taboo. She is made of earth, she is the all giving earth, she is connected with life and death.