Pandora
The Ancients
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The Carefree Age of Men Is at an End
The idea that a woman is responsible for everything going wrong is so heavily stitched into christianity in particular. And then erasmus comes along, who isn't even a christian, hi's a humanist, and yet he is responsible. It's incredible slur on pandora's character, which makes her seem more like eve than ever. He takes the word pythos, which means jar in greek, and he translates it to the word pixis, which means box in latin. In such a short space of time, literally just a few decades after he does this, you start seeing every single image of pandora is now with a box. Every single
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