Pandora
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
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Is a Box Makes Pandora More Malevolent?
I think a box makes Pandora more malevolent doesn't it than a jar Greek jars as I'm sure you remember from seeing pictures or one in a museum are very very narrow at the base and they broaden out to be very wide at the top. It takes almost no time after Erasmus has mistranslated this word pithos to pixis from jar to box before Pandora starts being shown in artworks with the box. The Oxford world's classic goes with pretty bane which just makes me think of Tom Hardy in that Batman film he is pretty he is playing bane. We can't deny that these things are morally neutral but fair enough he says that men's lives were
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