CLAS 170 Lecture 8: Pandora Essay
23 Oct 2017
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Most importantly, seek to explain why both traditions blame women for human suffering. Pandora from greek mythology was said to be the first woman. She was fashioned by the gods at the authority of zeus as a gift for epimetheus, prometheus" brother and was created to punish prometheus and mankind for defying zeus. Pandora"s purpose was to open the jar and to unbridle all the evils and misfortunes onto the world. Whereas the book of genesis in the bible states that eve was the first women. God put eve and adam in the paradise of the garden of. At the center of the garden was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God allowed them to eat the fruit of any tree but not from the tree of the knowledge. Adam ate that apple, their eyes were opened and sin was brought into the world.
