CLA201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Euripides, Pentheus, Deianira
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Goddess of beneficence, all giver or all gifted since she was said to have been endowed with skills and graces by the gods. The version given by hesiod has her conveying a pot (not a box) of ills for mankind (husband to be is epimetheus) and releasing them, withholding only hope. This is not a subject for ancient art. Athens more as a purveyor of skills for mankind from the gods. She is shown rising from the ground or being dressed by athena and hephaistos: hope being deluded, expectation of the future that is uncertain. Women as jars (upside down jar loos like a womb) need a woman to have children. Hope is in the jar of the wife (child), child might not be good. Name means all gifts from the gods, comes from the ground (gaia) In her appearance her gift given by the gods she echoes the divine (face of a goddess).
