| Titre | Pandora, la jarre et l'espoir | |
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| Auteur | Geneviève Hoffmann | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 97-98, 1985 L'ethnographie / Grèce | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Les grecs et l'imaginaire |
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| Page | 119-132 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Pandora, the Jar and Hope.
What is the meaning of Pandora's first gesture, the opening of the jar, in Hesiod's two poems, Theogony and Works and Days ? The Utopia of the Golden Age vanished, and the degradation — sickness and toil — of the Iron Age began with the first woman. Why was a jar used as an image ? For a farmer poet like Hesiod, it was a way to express to two functions of Panfora's belly: its voracity for food and its appetite for sex. This image has its roots in the use of the jar in relation to the seed (spérma). Hope, imprisoned in Pandora's belly, is, if Zeus wills, the promised child. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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