04-28-2010, 12:02 PM
Was Pandora's Box actually Pandora's Jar?
In this translation of Hesiod:
Wikipedia, which I have learned not to trust, says that the original Greek word was pithos, which it translates as "jar." It blames Erasmus of Rotterdam as the original mistranslator. True?
In this translation of Hesiod:
Quote:(ll. 90-105) For ere this the tribes of men lived on earth remote and free from ills and hard toil and heavy sickness which bring the Fates upon men; for in misery men grow old quickly. But the woman took off the great lid of the jar with her hands and scattered all these and her thought caused sorrow and mischief to men.
Wikipedia, which I have learned not to trust, says that the original Greek word was pithos, which it translates as "jar." It blames Erasmus of Rotterdam as the original mistranslator. True?
David J. Cord
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