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Conversations: Helen as the Beautiful Evil, the Kalon Kakon, w/ Alexia Burrows Charalambidou

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Calls Back to Pandora

These are obviously circe's pets, er. They're er, even familiars, if you will, a that keep her company on the island. And this again, calls back to pandora, i would argue. This clay moulding of these animals, who are really unsettling and quite scary, is, again, much like pandora. Obviously, its removing the beauty, but it's invoking that pandora image of like being moulded and having this really unsettling thing ar beneath this beautiful woman.

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