Pandora's Box
In Greek mythology, Pandora’s box is the large jar (πιθος pithos) carried by Pandora (Πανδώρα) that unleashed many evils on mankind – ills, toils and sickness – and hope.
The original Greek word used was pithos which is a large pot which could be as large as a small human. It was used for storage of wine or provisions, for example, for ritual purposes as a human’s grave. In the case of Pandora, this jar may have been made of clay for use as storage as in the usual sense, or, instead, of bronze metal as an unbreakable prison. The mistranslation of “lupus” as “box” is usually attributed to the 16th century humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam when he translated Hesiod’s tale of Pandora into Latin. Hesiod’s pithos refers to a storage jar for oil or grain. Erasmus, however, translated pithos into the Latin word pyxis, meaning “box”. The phrase “Pandora’s box” has endured ever since. This misconception was further backed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting Pandora.
AJ: pandora’s box is the most wanted thing for me now, sigh.. dunno, it’s just keep echoing in my head (?) that i need something, somewhere to keep all my sadness, my despair, my scream, my anger in a place that i can bring anywhere.. but, i also have some hope in it.. i really have a big joke thing in mind lately..
Pandora's Box
