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Pandora
opening her box
Author: James
Gillray
Date: 1809
Location:
National Portrait Gallery
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Pandora
Oil on canvas
Author: Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Date: 1882
Location: Private Collection
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MYTHOLOGY
The Pandora’s box/ jar is a myth of Greece, in this myth Zeus punishes the humans because the humans try to fool the gods.
Zeus removed the fire from the humans, Prometheus brought back the fire, Zeus got angry and ordered Hephaestus to create a beautiful woman. That woman was Pandora. Prometheus recommended Pandora not to accept any gift from Zeus, but she received a jar which contained the evil of the world, when she opened the jar and the evil of the world came out but hope, for this it is said that the evil is worth human beings.
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The creation of Pandora
Attic Red Figure Krater
Date: ca. 425-475 BC
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
United Kingdom
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The creation
of Pandora
Attic Red
Figure Calyx
Date: archaic
period
Author:
attributed to the Niobid´s painter
Location: British Museum, London,
United Kingdom
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EXAMPLES
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