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1. hephaestus
   Hephaestus (Roman Vulcan) was son of Zeus and Hera. As god of fire he was the supreme craftsman,
   building the wonderful houses for the gods on Olympus, and doing all their
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Hephaestus (Roman Vulcan) was son of Zeus and Hera. 
As god of fire he was the supreme craftsman, building the wonderful houses
for the gods on Olympus, and doing all their handyman work for them. 
His own house/workshop was fully automated, 
with robot maids and furniture with artificial intelligence. 
He was also lame, and thrown from Olympus by his mother (Book 18) or father (Book 1), 
in shame at having produced him. 
But he still pulls the girls - he is married to the beautiful Charis 
(and in the Odyssey to Aphrodite). 
He makes the fabulous new armour for Achilles in Book 18, 
to please Thetis, who looked after him after his fall from heaven. 


8. Pandora
   to pay for fire" (anti pyros). Hephaestus makes the woman out of earth and water, to look like a
   goddess. She is sent as a bride to Epimetheus, stupid brother of the smart
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Pandora's "box" is a modern invention going back only as far as Erasmus. 
According to Hesiod, the evils of all men were shut up in a storage jar (pithos)
buried in the ground.
This is connected by some with the Athenian festival of pithoigia, -
when the great vats (pithoi) of new wine were opened. 
Perhaps that's really where all mankind's troubles spring from! 
She, as the first woman, created after man, 
is sometimes compared to Eve in Hebrew myth.
                 Pandora was originally a
title of the goddess Rhea (the name means all gifts) 
- but the story of Pandora and her jar (not box) was probably
an anti-feminine invention of the poet Hesiod. 

                                                                               No!
                 Hesiod tells the story in his Works and Days (and again, slightly
                 differently in the Theogony). First note that she is not like her Jewish
                 counterpart: Eve was created to soothe Adam's loneliness, and to
                 help him as a partner. Pandora, the first woman in Greek myth, was
                 created as a punishment to mankind. Her name by the way does not
                 mean "giver of all gifts" - rather "she to whom all gifts were given" -
                 the gods gave her beauty (Aphrodite), skill (Athena), while Hermes
                 gave her a doglike (bitch-like?) mind and a thieving nature. "All
                 (pantes) the gods gave her gifts (dora), a sorrow to men who live on
                 bread." Zeus wanted to punish mankind for Prometheus' theft of fire -
                 he decided to give them a "beautiful evil" (kalon kakon) "to pay for
                 fire" (anti pyros). Hephaestus makes the woman out of earth and
                 water, to look like a goddess. She is sent as a bride to Epimetheus,
                 stupid brother of the smart Prometheus, although he'd been warned
                 not to take any gifts from the gods. Her first act was to take the lid
                 off the jar, whereupon all the evils and diseases were released, and
                 immediately spead all over the world. Only "Hope" was left in the jar.
                 Thus Pandora - and through her all women, who are her descendants
                 - has a beautiful exterior, but is worthless inside. In return for the
                 stolen fire, she is a thief, who burns men up with her appetite for
                 food (she's a parasite who has to be fed) and sex. As Hesiod
                 suggests, a woman is ambiguous: she is weak, but can control a man
                 through her appetites in bed and at table: she can make him both
                 feeble and poor. 

                      "Don't let a woman, wiggling her behind,
                      And flattering and coaxing, take you in;
                      She wants your barn: woman is just a cheat." 

                 But even if Pandora had a jar and not a box, women as portayed in
                 ancient art are forever putting things tidily away in boxes of various
                 kinds. There's even the myth of Danaë, where she and her son
                 Perseus were themselves tidied away in a box and dumped at sea.
                 François Lissarague has discussed the idea that the box is symbolic of
                 womens' life in Athens - she was to a large extent herself seen as a
                 container - for the sperm, for the child, who spent most of her life in
                 a container (house) designed for the purpose of allowing no
                 unauthorised person to open the box (see my Lysias page and related
                 pages). 

                   
                 Look at this image which is superbly rich in irony. The picture is on a
                 round pottery box (pyxis) - of a type used to store jewelry etcfor a
                 young girl's dowry. On the box is a picture of a
                 young girl with a box - and the painter has added
                 the name Danaë (although the picture is nothing to
                 do with her myth). And on the left of the girl - its
                 opening echoing the opening of the box - is the
                 door of her new house (oikos). It's as if by opening the jewel box
                 she's being distracted from the real box, which she's walking into
                 obliviously - a box that will contain her for the rest of her life until
                 she's carried out in another box. 

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