Pandora
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Birds
The goddess Pandora, named in the Oracle-Monger's recited oracle as the deity to whom a goat must first be sacrificed.
They must first sacrifice a white-fleeced goat to Pandora, and give the prophet who first reveals my words a good cloak and new sandals.
Stromata
Mythical first woman fashioned from earth by Hephaestus.
"And he bade the renowned Hephaestus, as quickly as might be, to mix earth with water, and to set in it a man's voice and mind.
Works and Days
The first woman, fashioned by Hephaestus and adorned by the gods at Zeus's command as a 'plague to men who eat bread'; she opens the great jar and releases evils into the world, leaving only Hope trapped within.
And he called this woman Pandora, because all they who dwelt on Olympus gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread.
But the woman took off the great lid of the jar with her hands and scattered, all these and her thought caused sorrow and mischief to men.
But when he had finished the sheer, hopeless snare, the Father sent glorious Argus-Slayer, the swift messenger of the gods, to take it to Epimetheus as a gift.
De Corona
The first woman in Hesiod's account, said to have been crowned by the Graces; cited by Tertullian and rejected as a false account.
If there was any Pandora, whom Hesiod records as the first of women, her head first was crowned by the Graces, when she was endowed by all—whence "Pandora.