Pandora (daughter of Deucalion)
InGreek mythology,Pandora(Ancient Greek:Πανδώρα,derived fromπᾶς"all" andδῶρον"gift", thus "all-gifted" or "all-giving" )[1]wasPhthianprincess as the daughter of KingDeucalionofThessaly.[2]She was named after her maternal grandmother, the more infamousPandora.[3]
Mythology
[edit]Pandora's mother wasPyrrha,daughter ofEpimetheusandPandora.She was the sister ofHellenandThyia.[4]Her other possible siblings wereProtogeneia,[5]Pronoos,Orestheus,Marathonius,[6]Amphictyon,[7]Melantho(Melantheia)[8]andCandybus.[9]
According to theHesiodicCatalogue of Women,Pandora was the mother ofGraecusby the godZeus.
"And in the palace Pandora the daughter of noble Deucalion was joined in love with father Zeus, leader of all the gods, and bare Graecus, staunch in battle."[10]
It has been debated whether Pandora is here Deukalion’s daughter or his wife, or neither.[11]
In some accounts, Pandora's children by Zeus were calledMeleraandPandorus.[12]
Notes
[edit]- ^Evelyn-White, note toHesiod,Works and Days81.; Schlegel and Weinfield,"Introduction to Hesiod"p. 6;Meagher,p. 148;Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The Pandora-Eve Motif in Rabbinic Literature",The Harvard Theological Review,Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1974),pp. 341-345
- ^Hesiod,Ehoiaifr. 5 fromIoannes Lydus,de Mensibus1.13;Gantz,p. 167;Pseudo-Clement,Recognitions10.21
- ^West, p.173
- ^Hesiod, fr. 5, 7, 9MW(Gantz,p. 167)
- ^Pherecydes,3F23 (Gantz,p. 167)
- ^Hecateus,1F13 (Gantz,p. 167)
- ^Apollodorus,1.7.2 (Gantz,p. 167)
- ^Hesiod,Catalogue of Womenfr. 5 Most, pp. 46, 47[= fr. 4 Merkelbach-West, p. 5 = Scholia onHomer'sOdyssey10.2 (Dindorf,p. 444)]
- ^Stephanus of Byzantium,s.v.Kandyba (Κάνδυβα)
- ^Hesiod,Ehoiaifr. 5 from Ioannes Lydus,de Mensibus1.13;Gantz,p. 167
- ^West,p. 52, n. 38:"Wilamowitz,Hermes34,1899, 610= Kl. Schr. iv.81, prefers to see her as his wife, so that Graikos may be on a level with Hellen. He is followed by Merkelbach,Chronique d’ Egypt43,1968, 144. Most scholars, however, have followed B. Niese,Hermes12, 1877, 416 in taking her as Deukalion’s daughter. Casanova, op. cit. 176-87, argues that she is Epimetheus' ex-wife who has found lodging with her son-in-law. But she would hardly be called aκούρηin that case. "
- ^Pseudo-Clement,Recognitions10.21
References
[edit]- Gantz, Timothy,Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources,Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes:ISBN978-0-8018-5360-9(Vol. 1),ISBN978-0-8018-5362-3(Vol. 2).
- Hesiod,Catalogue of WomenfromHomeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homericatranslated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.Online version at theoi.com
- Pseudo-Clement,RecognitionsfromAnte-NiceneLibrary Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867.Online version at theoi.com
- West, M. L.,The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins,Clarendon PressOxford, 1985.ISBN978-0-198-14034-4.
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