Greek Myths: Pandora's Box, Icarus, Sisyphus and Danaïdes | Sleepy Mythology Stories
In this soft-spoken bedtime story, I tell you about four Greek myths: · Pandora and her jar (or box), which according to Hesiod contained countless plagues that she let escape, providing a backstory for the existence of suffering in human life. This myth works as a "theodicy" (a backstory or an argument that explains…
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