Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol (Bollingen Series, 737)
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ISBN: 0691018243 / Publisher: Princeton University Press, September 1991
Pandora was the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitali...
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Pandora was the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderón, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora’s box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present.
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