Pandora's Box : : The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol / / Erwin Panofsky, Dora Panofsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Panofsky, Dora,; Panofsky, Erwin,
• MitwirkendeR: Panofsky, Dora,; Panofsky, Erwin,; Panofsky, Frwin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1962
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Bollingen Series (General) ; 125
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora's box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present.Originally published in 1962.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- PANDORA'S BOX. The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol -- I. Pandora in the Medieval Tradition -- II. The Origin of the "Box": Erasmus of Rotterdam -- III. Pandora and Hope: Andrea Alciati -- IV. Pandora and Ignorance: Rosso Fiorentino -- V. Roma Prima Pandora; Eva Prima Pandora; Lutetia Nova Pandora -- VI. Pandora, "'Gift of All": Elizabethans and Jacques Callot -- VII : ΠϲΘοεγiα: Hesiod vs. Babrius et al. -- VIII. Romanticism, Classicist and Victorian -- Epilogue: Pandora Oil the Stage: Calderón, Voltaire, Goethe, and Late-Antique Allegory -- Addenda -- Addenda to the Second Edition -- Index