Spotlighting examples of classical Greek art in the context of findings in anthropology, social history, psychology, classics & classical archeology, Pandora offers a multifaceted look at women in myth, ritual & daily life in classical Greece. Written to accompany an international traveling exhibition organized by the Walters Art Gallery, this volume examines the imagery of classical Greek marbles, bronzes, terracottas & vases in order to understand how women were perceived & how they lived. Pandora offers a new emphasis on myths dealing with the unmarried maiden & the difficulty of the transition to marriage & motherhood--as exemplified in the stories of Danae, Thetis, Atalanta & Amymone. Also explored are images of containers & wild animals as metaphors for women; rituals involving women, such as the wedding & the cult of the Little Bears at Brauron; the character & cult of goddesses & the association of women with textiles.
Preface
Preface to the 2nd Edition
Pandora in the Medieval tradition
The origin of the "box": Erasmus of Rotterdam
Pandora & hope: Andrea Alciati
Pandora & ignorance: Rosso Fiorentino
Roma Prima Pandora: Eva Prima Pandora: Lutetia Nov Pandora
Pandora, "gift of all": Elizabethans & Jacques Callot
Hesiod vs. Babrius et alia
Romanticism, Classicist & Victorian
Pandora on the stage: Calderón, Voltaire, Goethe & Late-Antique allegory
Addenda
Addenda to the 2nd Edition
Index