Pandora! The first woman and the first woman that men hated. Funny how that works out. Join C and John as they explore the Ancient Greek myth of the first woman, rom her humble origins as a punishment to all men to inspiring other myths about women ruining everything.
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References:
Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days, translated here: https://www.theoi.com/Library.html with a secondary reference to the translation of Works and Days found at the Harvard Center for Hellenistic Studies.
Apostolos Athanassakis’s translation of Hesiod: Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield, 2004, Johns
Hopkins Press—used paraphrasing of his commentary
Boys-Stones et al. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Aristotle, On the Generation of Animals: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Generation_of_Animals
Elinor Cleghorn. Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World. 2021. Dutton.
ARISTOTLE AND THE POLITICAL ROLE OF WOMEN Richard Mulgan, History of Political Thought, Vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 179-202 (24 pages)
King, H. 1998. ‘Hippocrates Woman’: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London: Routledge
Amanda Foreman, The Ascent of Woman (documentary, episode one)
Katie Brown. Eve, Pandora and Plato: How Greek Myth Shaped the First Christian Woman.
https://www.thecollector.com/pandora-plato-first-woman/
Ed by Dominic J O’Meara, Neoplatonism and Christian Thought. 1981. SUNY Press.
Plato and Christianity: A Philosophical Comparison, John Wild, Journal of Bible and Religion, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1949), pp. 3-16 (14 pages) (U of Oxford Press)
Single women live longer study: Jia H, Lubetkin EI. Life expectancy and active life expectancy by marital status among older U.S. adults: Results from the U.S. Medicare Health Outcome Survey (HOS). SSM Popul Health. 2020 Aug 15;12:100642. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100642. PMID: 32875051; PMCID: PMC7452000.
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