Pandora''s Box - The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol

Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, 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.

Originally published in 1962.

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Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, 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 literat

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• Authors: Dora Panofsky, Dora Panofsky Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky, Panofsky Dora, Panofsky Erwin
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2019
• EAN: 9780691625362
• ISBN: 978-0-691-62536-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, HISTORY / Women, Ancient History, Gender studies: women, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, Bibliographies, catalogues