PHIL100J Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Beehive, Homer, Loeb Classical Library
29 Jan 2015
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The greek myth of pandora according to two poems from hesiod (excerpts from hesiod, the homeric hymns and homerica, trans. Both excerpts tell the same myth, but give different details. If you read both versions, you will have a better understanding of this traditional greek myth. Read first the version that comes from the theogony, and then the version that comes from works and days. For when the gods and mortal men had a dispute at mecone, even then prometheus was forward to cut up a great ox and set portions before them, trying to befool the mind of zeus. Before the rest he set flesh and inner parts thick with fat upon the hide, covering them with an ox paunch; but for zeus he put the white bones dressed up with cunning art and covered with shining fat. Then the father of men and of gods said to him: (ll.
