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A Hellenist's review of Natalie Haynes' Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Pandora the first woman ever)

 Hello everyone The first chapter is the eponymous Pandora, she is famous for giving us the idiom "Pandora's Box" but as Haynes pointed out, it was not a box, but a jar or vase. The story of Pandora comes from Hesiod's works appearing both in Theogony and more detailed in Works and Days . The famous Pandora's box is indeed a πίθος (píthos) and it is like a barrel since it typically held liquid and was part of freight. Pandora is known as the first woman of Ancient Greek mythology, and Haynes herself makes a comparison to mythic story of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, which is already an often used comparison. Remember kids, the Bible is Christian Mythology too, as most religions have mythologies. The way this story is told is that Pandora opened her jar, either for curiosity or malice, and had released something evil and hardships, and Hesiod sets this after Prometheus steals Fire itself from the Gods, in particular Zeus. The story ends with her only finding hope in it

Hellenism in Popular Culture: My Little Pony (Part One) Overview and introduction

 Hello everypony, I mean everyone Today I'm writing something that is a culmination of many things I hold dear to me both culturally and spiritually This series explores how the values of Hellenism and similar religions and spiritual paths still teach us today and how they show up in different parts of cultural media, from stories directly based on the classical mythological canon, to stories derived from it in some way, and others especially fantasy series that take many elements from it but ultimately share a value system or morality rooted in what all Hellenic Polytheists share generally, that is virtues like Xenia, Charis, Eusebia, and Ariste. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic overview and franchise history This was a show that ran in the 2010s and was the fourth generation of the popular and established toy and media franchise My Little Pony that started in the 1980s, that much is clear, Friendship is Magic the show and anything related to that directly will be called G4 in t