Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol

by Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky

Overview

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.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691625362
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	01/29/2019
Series:	Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology , #5382
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	688,791
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A delightful book on the myth. The Panofskys tell how the myth has been transformed both by the fantasy and by the mistakes of modern artists and writers from the Renaissance to the present day. Not only do they do so, vividly and sometimes wittily, but they give us sixty pictures ranging all the way from an exquisite Benvenuto Cellini sculpture to a percipient but loathsome Paul Klee still life."—Gilbert Highet

Editorial Reviews

"On one level this is a superior anthology of Pandoras both literary and visual, but on another it is a genuine history, at least as much a work of iconology as of iconography."

The Times Literary Supplement

"A delightful book on the myth. The Panofskys tell how the myth has been transformed both by the fantasy and by the mistakes of modern artists and writers from the Renaissance to the present day. Not only do they do so, vividly and sometimes wittily, but they give us sixty pictures ranging all the way from an exquisite Benvenuto Cellini sculpture to a percipient but loathsome Paul Klee still life."—Gilbert Highet

From the Publisher