Pandora
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
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He Didn't Name Pandora
Professor Edith Hall joins us to talk about the origins of Pandora. She says there are no women before Pandora and men are descended from a whole other clay born creature Eric Phonius and women are descended from Pandora we're literally different races according to the Greek origin story made of different chunks of clay so what's going on here it is a strange story, she says. The thing I like most about her is that she likes her dress is what Hesiod says he says Cosmo agalominan she delights in her dressI kind of love it because he clearly disapproves of her you know he calls her evil but yet she's taking an innocent pleasure in having a nice dress
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