A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 491
-prised with some sudden fearwith no apparent cause, hencecalled 1 Panic. Paudora. The first woman on earth. When Prometheus stolethe fire from heaven, Zeus (Jupiter) in order to avenge himself,caused Hephaestus (Vulcan) to make a woman out of earth, whosecharms should bring misery on men.… … Pan. (Bronze lleiief. Pompeii.) 474 ANCIENT MYTHS charmed witli her that he forgot that Prometheus had told him notto accept anj gift from the gods, and took her for his wife. Slieopened the box and the ills spread over all the earth. Hope wasthe only blessing which was there. Later writers say…
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