Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol (Bollingen Series)

Dora Panofsky; Erwin Panofsky

ISBN 10: 0691018243 / ISBN 13: 9780691018249

Published by Princeton University Press, 1991

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Synopsis:

Pandora was the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderón, 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.

Review: "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

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a ...
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 3rd Edition