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{{Quote|"[About the creation of Pandora, the first mortal woman]: | {{Quote|"[About the creation of Pandora, the first mortal woman]: | ||
And at once he [Zeus] made an affliction for mankind to set against the fire. The renowned Ambidexter ['skilled or strong in both arms', an epiphet for the God Hephaestus] moulded from earth the likelihood of a modest maiden, by Kronos' son's design. [...] | And at once he [Zeus] made an affliction for mankind to set against the fire. The renowned Ambidexter ['skilled or strong in both arms', an epiphet for the God Hephaestus] moulded from earth the likelihood of a modest maiden, by Kronos' son's design. [...] | ||
When he had made a pretty bane to set against a blessing, he let her out to where the other gods and men were, resplendent in the finery of pale-eyed one [Athena] whose father is stern. Both immortal gods and mortal man were struck with wonder when they saw that precipitious trap, more than mankind can manage. For from her is descended the female sex, a great affliction to mortals as they dwell with their husband—no fit partners for accursed poverty, but only for plenty."|Hesiod, 1988, ''Theogeny and Works and Days'', trans. M.L West, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, p. 20.}} | When he had made a pretty bane to set against a blessing, he let her out to where the other gods and men were, resplendent in the finery of the pale-eyed one [Athena] whose father is stern. Both immortal gods and mortal man were struck with wonder when they saw that precipitious trap, more than mankind can manage. For from her is descended the female sex, a great affliction to mortals as they dwell with their husband—no fit partners for accursed poverty, but only for plenty."|Hesiod, 1988, ''Theogeny and Works and Days'', trans. M.L West, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, p. 20.}} | ||
{{Quote|"As the bees in their sheltered nests feed the drones, those conspirators in badness, and while they busy themselves each day and every day till sundown making the white honeycomb, the drones stay in their sheltered shells and pile the toil of others into their own bellies, even so as a bane for mortal men has high-thundering Zeus created women, conspirators in causing difficulty."|''ibid'', pp. 20-21.}} | {{Quote|"As the bees in their sheltered nests feed the drones, those conspirators in badness, and while they busy themselves each day and every day till sundown making the white honeycomb, the drones stay in their sheltered shells and pile the toil of others into their own bellies, even so as a bane for mortal men has high-thundering Zeus created women, conspirators in causing difficulty."|''ibid'', pp. 20-21.}} | ||
{{Quote|"And he [Zeus] gave a second bane to set against a blessing for the man who, to avoid marriage and the trouble women cause, chooses not to wed, and arrives at grim old age lacking anyone to look after him. He is not short of livelihood while he lives, but when he dies, distant relatives share out his living. Then again, the man who does partake of marriage, and gets a good wife who is sound and sensible, spends his life with the bad competing with the good; while the man who gets an awful kind lives with unrelenting pain in heart and spirit, and is ill without a cure"|''ibid'', p. 21.}} | {{Quote|"And he [Zeus] gave a second bane to set against a blessing for the man who, to avoid marriage and the trouble women cause, chooses not to wed, and arrives at grim old age lacking anyone to look after him. He is not short of livelihood while he lives, but when he dies, distant relatives share out his living. Then again, the man who does partake of marriage, and gets a good wife who is sound and sensible, spends his life with the bad competing with the good; while the man who gets an awful kind lives with unrelenting pain in heart and spirit, and is ill without a cure"|''ibid'', p. 21.}} | ||