2022年12月9日 · Pandora was sometimes known by the alternate name “Anesidora,” meaning “she who sends up gifts.” Attributes and Iconography. Pandora, perhaps more than any other figure in Greek mythology, was defined by her attributes. Indeed, her name was interpreted by the ancient Greeks as a reference to the fact that, when she was created, each of ...

2022年11月29日 · Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, was a Greek Titan, known for being as slow-witted as Prometheus was quick. Neglecting his wiser brother’s warnings, Epimetheus accepted Pandora as his bride and thus inadvertently …

2023年3月21日 · Sometimes Hesiod’s contradictory use of myth is less self-conscious. For instance, both the myth of Pandora and the Myth of the Races —which are told back to back—are meant to explain the origins of human suffering. The use of two seemingly unrelated myths to explain the same phenomenon may seem odd or unnecessary to contemporary readers ...

2023年3月8日 · Prometheus, the son of Iapetus, was a quick-witted Greek Titan who sided with the Olympians in their war against his Titan brethren. For gifting fire to humanity, he was sentenced to eternal torment by Zeus, but was eventually saved by the hero Heracles.

2023年3月11日 · Alkēstis) was most likely derived from the Greek word alkē, meaning “defense, help, strength,” or from the underlying Indo-European root *h₂elk-/*h₂lek-s-(“ward off, defend”). Alcestis’ name thus reflects her mythical role as the one …

2023年3月10日 · Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was a beautiful princess of Ethiopia. Offered up as a sacrifice to Poseidon as punishment for her mother’s foolish boasts, Andromeda was rescued from death by Perseus, who took her back to Greece to be his queen.

2023年10月2日 · Daphnis, often said to have been a son of Hermes, was a handsome herdsman who lived in Sicily. When he was blinded by a jealous nymph for his infidelity, he invented pastoral poetry to console himself.

2023年7月5日 · Deucalion, son of the Titan Prometheus, was most famous for surviving a flood that Zeus sent to wipe out the human race. After the waters subsided, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha repopulated the earth by throwing stones over the …

2023年3月23日 · The Hecatoncheires, also called the “Hundred-Handers,” were three children of Gaia and Uranus, named Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges. With fifty heads and one hundred arms each, these creatures were a force to be reckoned with and played an important role in the war between the Titans and Olympians.

2023年2月9日 · When the gods fashioned Pandora to bring ruin upon human beings, they took care to endow her with all the gifts they had at their disposal: Hephaestus, the smith god, shaped the beautiful woman from clay, ang the gods breathed craft and intelligence into her and dressed her lavishly, as “the divine Graces [Charites] and queenly Persuasion put ...