women of legend Flashcards
who is pandora
the first woman of greek mythology
who is zeus
the king of the gods and god of thunder
who is hephastus
the god of craft and force
who is epimethus
a titan whose name means hindsight
who is hermes
messenger of the gods,sometimes called giant slayer
while the gods where creating thw world a certain god did what
promethus stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race
what was zeus’s retaliation when promethus stole fire from the gods
zeus wanted toi punih man kind
who helped zeus retalliate aganist msnkind
hephaestus,hermes,aphrodite and athena
what zeus ask the other gods to do to help him retalliate against mankinds disobedience
- asked hephastus to create the first women
- hermes gave her a shameless midn a deceit
- aphrodite made pandora beautiful
- athena taught pandora womenly crafts
who was pandora given to as a gift
epimethus took pandora as his wife
what has epimethus been warned
he was warned to never trust zeua but he forgot
what did pandora bring with her to earth
a jar with all bad this like war and famine
what did pandora do whcih she wasn’t supposed to but she couldn’t resist temptation
she opened the jar ,everything else escaped but hope
what do later versions say about pandora’s jar
that instead for a jar it was a box and she was told not to open the box but her curiosity caused jer to disobey the instructuions and open it.she realised all the bad things by mistakes . this makes pandora’s charcater seem complex:she is curious,disobiedient and lacks self control
name three of pandora’s prescribed sources
hesiod theogony,a vase depicting the creation of pandroa ,works anx days
