References
for “What Pandora let out and what she left in.”
(read at the meeting of the Classical Association of Atlantic
States, Oct. 6, 2006, with additions through 3/13/10 as noted)
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Ancient
Sources Cited:
Theognis
1135-38; pseudo-Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 250; Callimachus fragment
177 (Pfeiffer); Comanus of
Vase-painting:
The
slide of British Museum F147 {was} taken from Reeder, E. D., ed., Pandora.
Women in Classical Greece (Princeton 1995) 51. See alternatively Lexicon
Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VII.2: 100, or Neils (below) 38-39.
Modern References Cited:
Arrighetti, G., ed. 1998. Esiodo Opere (Turin),
413-16. (the
escaped contents are bad; Elpis is
preserved;
her character is ambiguous)
Bartlett,
Robert C. 2006. “An Introduction to Hesiod’s Works and Days,” Review
of Politics 68:
177-205,
at 185-86. (escaped contents bad; Elpis partly preserved, partly not; she is
bad
to
the extent she is among men, good to the extent she remains in the jar away
from men)
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Beall,
E. F. 1989. “The Contents of Hesiod’s Pandora Jar: Erga 94-98,” Hermes
117: 227-30.
(escaped contents
good; Elpis preserved; her isolation bad)
-------.
2006. Review of Musäus, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.07.16.
Blümer, W. 2001. Interpretation archaischer
Dichtung: die mythologischen Partien der Erga Hesiods,
2 vols.
(Münster), II 179-200. (bad; Elpis imprisoned; she is bad)
Byrne,
S. N. 1998. “Ἐëðίò in Works and
Days 90-105,” Syllecta Classica 9: 37-46. (bad; imprisoned;
good)
Clay,
J. S. 2003. Hesiod’s Cosmos (
-------.
2009. “Works and Days: Tracing the path to Arete,” in Brill’s
Companion to
Hesiod, eds. F. Montanari,
A. Rengakos, and C. Tsagalis (Leiden/Boston),
71-90, at 77-78. (not stated; preserved;
lacks certainty but makes life bearable)
{Added 2/15/10}
Fasciano, Domenico. 2005. “Pandore,
la première femme,” Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale
47: 9-22, esp.
14-15. (bad; preserved; bad) {Added 9/20/07}
Holzhausen, J. 2004. “Das ‘Übel’ der Frauen. Zu
Hesiods Pandora-Mythos,” Würzburger Jahrbücher
für
die Altertumswissenschaft N.F. 28b: 5-29. (I have not had
access to this article.
According
to Krajczynski and Rösler, its conclusions on the pithos narrative
are substantially
those
of Musäus.)
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Krajczynski
and Rösler (as indeed they acknowledge, 20 n. 26, although I originally
missed
the
point) in saying that Pandora plays the role of the housewife managing the
provisions in
the
pithos. He does agree with Musäus on the role of elpis.}
Krajczynski, J. and W. Rösler. 2006. “Die Substanz der Hoffnung: Zum Pandora-Mythos in Hesiods
Erga,” Philologus
150: 14-27. (contents provisions; elpis figure for seed-grain left in
jar)
Lauriola, R. 2000. “Elpis e la giara di Pandora (Hes. Op.
90-104): il bene e il male nella vita
dell’uomo,” Maia 52: 9-18. (bad;
preserved; good)
Lev Kenaan, Vered. 2008. Pandora’s Senses. The Feminine
Character of the Ancient Text (
WI),
88-89. (bad; preserved; [implicitly] good) {Added
Montiglio,
Silvia. 2005. Wandering in ancient Greek culture (
ambiguous) {Added 5/15/09)
Musäus, I. 2004. Der Pandoramythos bei Hesiod und
seine Rezeption bis Erasmus von Rotterdam
(Göttingen),
10, 30-41, 67-94, 108-15, 179-82. (provisions; hope for new provisions)
Neils,
J. 2005. “The Girl in the Pithos: Hesiod’s Elpis,” in Periklean
Athens and its Legacy. Problems
and
Perspectives,
eds. J. M. Barringer and J. M. Hurwit (
bad)
Nelson,
S. 1998. God and the Land (
Ogden,
D. 1998. “What was in Pandora’s box,” in Archaic Greece: New Approaches and
New Evidence,
eds. N. Fisher and H. van Wees (London),
213-30. (bad; imprisoned; ambivalent shading toward
bad) {Added 3/13/10}
Oppermann,
M. 1994. “Pandora,” Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VII.1:
163-67,
at 164.
Panofsky,
D. and E. 1965. Pandora’s Box, rev. 2nd ed. (
Sánchez Ortiz de Landaluce, M. 1998. “El mito de
Pandora en Hesíodo: un nuevo análisis
interpretativo de
un relato esperanzador,” Minerva 12: 41-52. (bad; preserved; good)
Schroeder,
C. M. 2006. Hesiod in the Hellenistic Imagination. University of
Michigan dissertation.
{Added 9/29/07}
Schwartz, E. 1956 [1915]. “Prometheus bei Hesiod,” in his
Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 2 (Berlin),
42-62, esp. 51-55.
(provisions; Elpis puzzling)
Solmsen,
F. 1949. Hesiod and Aeschylus (Ithaca), 83. (bad; Elpis not
understandable)
Warman,
Liz. 2004. “Hope in a Jar,” Mouseion 48:
107-19. (good; preserved; “emotion-tinged
uncertainty
about the future,” if objectively “an obstacle to success”) {Added
West,
M. L. 1978. Hesiod: Works and Days (
Verdenius,
W. J. 1985. A Commentary on Hesiod: Works and Days, vv. 1-382 (
(bad;
imprisoned; bad)
Wolkow,
B. M. 2007. “The Mind of a Bitch: Pandora’s Motive and Intent in the Erga,”
Hermes 135: 247-62.
{Pandora thought the contents
were provisions, whatever they actually were} {Added
Zarecki,
Jonathan P. 2007. “Pandora and the Good Eris in Hesiod,” Greek, Roman, And
Byzantine
Studies 47: 5-29, esp.
19-25. (good; preserved; “fundamentally neutral”) {Added
Bibliographical
References:
For
a listing of modern studies of the myth through 1996, see Blümer II
239-395.
For
ancient and medieval views, quoted in Greek or Latin with German translation,
see Musäus 67-182.
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