Pandora's Box was actually a vase Bashny.Net

Here again we are faced with the problem of translation. The original Greek word «πιθος» was mistranslated Erasmus into Latin as "small box". Actually, Hesiod, the author of the story of Pandora's box did not mean a box and a large jar or vase. These vases were used by the ancient Greeks for storing wine, oil or grain. Sometimes they were used in funerary purposes. Error Erasmus caught so that the expression of Pandora's Box has been one of the most common metaphors in the world.

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