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Pandora's box is an artefact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. [1] Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind.
Kendrew Lascelles (pronounced Lassels; 20 September 1935 – 1 March 2022 [1]) was an English-born actor, performer and writer from South Africa. [2] His works are known for raising the profile of issues of major social conscience, particularly Apartheid and the Vietnam War.
The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given.
"Pandora's Box" (subtitled "It's a Long, Long Way" for the US release) is a song by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released by Virgin on 24 June 1991 as the second single from their eighth studio album, Sugar Tax (1991).
Erwin Panofsky was nicknamed 'Pan' and 'Pan-Dora' became a nickname for the couple. In 1950 "the couple resolved to accept the epithet as literary fate", and together embarked on a study of Pandora's box as a mythical symbol. [5] Dora Panofsky, whose life had been restricted by ill health since the mid-1940s, died in October 1965. [2]
Myth and Mythopoeia is an album of contemporary classical music composed by John Zorn and featuring a piece for string quartet and soprano, one for solo cello, one for a trio of piano, violin and cello, one for a duo of violin and cello and one for full ensemble, which was released on the Tzadik label in June 2014.
Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. The film follows Lulu, a seductive young woman whose uninhibited nature brings ruin to herself and those who love her.
[a] Some editions of the book were accompanied by a tape of Kesh music and poetry. A number of these are attributed by Pandora to a Kesh woman named Little Bear Woman; [b] [4] these are: Shahugoten. As told by Little Bear Woman of Sinshan to the Editor pp. 57–59 [a legend] Coming Home to Up the Hill House. By Little Bear Woman p. 258 [a poem]