Pandora 1 Pandora Pandora was the first woman created in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony and Works and Days She was created as punishment for men 2 Works and Days In the Greek Hesiod s Works and Days Pandora is the first woman created by Hephaestus She is created because Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men 3 Didactic Greek Hesiod s Works and Days is a didactic poem It is all about moral instruction 4 Misogynistic Both Greek Hesiod s Theogony and Works and Days illustrates the misogynistic strain in Greek culture This strain deals with hating women 5 Hephaistos Hephaestus Hephaestus is a blacksmith god In the Greek Hesiod s Works and Days he creates Pandora out of clay and water 6 Epimetheus Epimetheus is the dumber brother of Prometheus In the Greek Hesiod s Works and Days he accepts the Zeus gift of Pandora from Hermes 7 Pyxis Pyxis is a cosmetic box Erasmus mistranslated pithos jar as pyxis box in the 8 Pithos Pithos is a large storage jar Erasmus mistranslated pithos jar as pyxis box in Greek Hesiod s Works and Days the Greek Hesiod s Works and Days 9 Hope Hope and many evils are trapped inside of Pandora s jar in the Greek Hesiod s Works and Days She puts the lid back on the jar before hope can escape along with all of the evils 10 Kalon kakon Kalon Kakon is the Greek Hesiod s word for women It means a beautiful 11 Myth of the Races Myth of the Races is a Near Eastern idea that illustrates the devolution of people The Greek Hesiod transposed it into a Greek myth after the Pandora story to offer a fuller view of why life is hard 12 Race of Heroes The Race of the Heroes is present in the Greek Hesiod s Myth of the Races The people in this race do not decline and are better than the Bronze Race evil Prometheus Ouranos is his parents Prometheus grandson is Prometheus 13 Titans The Titans are the children of Gaia and Ouranos in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony Prometheus is the son of the Titan Iapetos 14 Iapetos Iapetos is the father of Prometheus in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony Gaia and 15 Gaia Gaia is the mother of the Titans in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony Her grandson is 16 Ouranos Ouranos is the father of the Titans in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony His 17 Atlas Atlas is the brother of Prometheus in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony He is a sky supporter who is punished by Zeus to hold up the sky 18 Menoitios Menoitios is the brother of Prometheus in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony He is thrown into Tartaros by Zeus as punishment 19 Mecone Mecone is the city where the gods and men divide up the ox in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony It is where Prometheus tricks Zeus with the sacrifice 20 Sicyon Sicyon is another name for the Greek city Mecone in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony It is where Prometheus tricks Zeus with the sacrifice 21 fennel stalk Prometheus steals fire and carries it in a fennel stalk in the Greek Hesiod s Theogony He gives fire to man and is punished by Zeus for this deed 22 Aeschylus Greek Aeschylus is the author of Prometheus Bound In this myth Prometheus is punished by Zeus because he stole fire and refuses to tell Zeus a fate he knows 23 Prometheus Bound Prometheus is punished by Zeus because he stole fire and refused to tell Zeus a fate he knows in the Greek Aeschylus Prometheus Bound It portrays Zeus as a tyrant and Prometheus as a culture hero 24 culture hero Prometheus is depicted as a culture hero in the Greek Aeschylus Prometheus Bound His theft of fire from Zeus helps men build civilization 25 Enki Ea Ea is a trickster god in the Babylonian Enuma Elish He like the Greek Prometheus is connected to the creation of humans 26 Metis Metis is a binatural goddess of cleverness in the Greek Theogony She is a threat to Zeus rule 27 Typhoios Typhon Typhoios Typhon is the most serious of all threats to Zeus in the Greek Theogony He is a dragon like monster that is associated with the earth and is defeated by Zeus 28 Metallurgy The Greek Prometheus gift of fire helped men build civilization It was because of this that men were able to practice metallurgy to create tools 29 Prometheus Unbound In the Greek Prometheus Unbound Prometheus was released He also reconciled with Zeus 30 Kratos Kratos is the binatural god of power Him and Bia are Zeus henchmen that order Hephaistos to chain Prometheus to cliff in the Greek Prometheus Unbound 31 Bia Bia is the binatural god of force Him and Kratos are Zeus henchmen that order Hephaistos to chain Prometheus to cliff in the Greek Prometheus Unbound 32 Okeanids The Okeanids are the daughters of the god Okeanos in the Greek Prometheus Unbound They are the chorus of the play 33 Okeanos Okeanos is a Zeus sympathizer god in the Greek Prometheus Unbound He is a binatural freshwater river god who is also a Titan 34 Io Io is a women who Zeus wants to sleep with in the Greek Prometheus Unbound He turns her into a cow to hide her from Hera Background Reading 7 Prometheus Bound 35 Athens Athens is a Greek polis or city state Athena was the patron goddess and namesake of Athens 36 Agonistic Ancient Greek culture as a whole was intensely agonistic or competitive This is well exemplified in tragic competitions that were performed at yearly religious festivals in honor of Dionysus 37 Tragedy Tragedies would be performed at yearly religious Greek festivals in honor of Dionysus It probably developed out of choruses of singers dancers who performed in religious contexts 38 Satyr play A Greek satyr play was a comic play based on a mythological story Satyrs unrestrained drunken lusty humanoid creatures with horse tail and ears provided the chorus in a satyr play 39 Trilogy Greek Aeschylus play Prometheus Bound was part of a connected trilogy of tragedies By the end of the trilogy Prometheus is unchained from his bonds and mends his differences with Zeus Raven and Coyote 40 Native American Raven and Coyote were Native American tricksters The Native Americans told them as oral stories 41 Raven Raven is a Native American trickster specifically of the Tlingit people He has a malleable body and often is portrayed as an animal man or god in different stories 42 Tlingit The Tlingit people are a Native American tribe who lived on the coast of Alaska and northwest Canada They may have originated aroung the Nass River 43 Nass River The Tlingit people a Native American tribe may have originated around the Nass River They lived on the coast of Alaska and northwest Canada 44 Kit ka ositiyi qa Kit ka ositiyi qa is the father of Raven in the Native American myth in which Raven is
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