Pandora
The Ancients
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Pandora - The Girl With All the Gifts
Routini people will tell you it means the girl with all the gifts, which was indeed the title of rather good sombi novel a few years ago. But pandora actually means all giving, not to whom all is given. She gives everything, good things, bad things, and it makes her a bit more complicated than just this sort of prett destructive lady. The one thing which is consistent across all these versions is that a single object is retained in the jar. It's hope or expectation,. People usually translate it as hope, but the greek, elpis doesn't mean anything quite as positive as hope. And even that has been used as a stick to beat pand
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