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in reply to a message by Lillian
...in the book I'm looking at right now, "Greek Myths", I couldn't help but look it up :-). It says, and I quote: "At last the stream slacked, and Pandora, who had been paralyzed with fear and horror, found strength to shut her box. The only thing left it it now, however, was the one good gift the gods had put in among so many evil ones. This was hope, and since that time the hope that is in a man's heart is the only thing which has made him able to bear the sorrows that Pandora brought upon him."
I guess you can interpret this to say hope could have been unleased as well if Pandora hadn't shut it in, but also that it already resided in the hearts of men. But if they didn't have that hope they weren't gettin any any where else. :-) But, who really knows anyway?
I guess you can interpret this to say hope could have been unleased as well if Pandora hadn't shut it in, but also that it already resided in the hearts of men. But if they didn't have that hope they weren't gettin any any where else. :-) But, who really knows anyway?
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Thats the version that I heard too - that all the evils got released, and that hope was the only thing left in the box when Pandora sealed it again.
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That's pretty much my interpretation of it, too.
It's always been ambiguous that we have all of those things because Pandora supposedly let them out of the box, and yet we have hope because Pandora supposedly shut it in the box.
I suspect it's become altered in the translation somewhere in the millenia since it was first invented!
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
It's always been ambiguous that we have all of those things because Pandora supposedly let them out of the box, and yet we have hope because Pandora supposedly shut it in the box.
I suspect it's become altered in the translation somewhere in the millenia since it was first invented!
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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