In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what kind of object is Pandora’s pithos?
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A storage jar
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In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what kind of object is Pandora’s pithos?
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A storage jar
Which Greek poet wrote that Pandora’s vessel held humanity’s illnesses and troubles?
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Hesiod
In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what does Pandora leave inside the vessel after opening it?
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Hope
In Greek mythology, what escaped from Pandora’s jar first: hope or the evils?
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The evils
In Hesiod’s Works and Days, which god gives Pandora the power of speech?
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Hermes
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What is Pandora called in Greek mythology’s earliest surviving literary account?
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The first woman
In which Hesiod poem does the most detailed account of Pandora’s jar appear?
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Works and Days
In Hesiod’s Theogony, Pandora is described as what kind of evil for humanity?
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A beautiful evil