Pandora Pestilence Canvas Print

"He sings and bursts into laughter, the father of gods and men; and he commands the illustrious Hepaistos to soak a little earth without delay, to put the voice and the forces of a human being in it, and to form, in the image of the immortal goddesses, a beautiful body friendly as a virgin; Athéné will teach him his work, the profession that weaves a thousand colors; Aphrodite d'or on his forehead will spread grace, the painful desire, the worries that break the limbs, while an impenetrable spirit, an artificial heart will be, on the order of Zeus, put in it by Hermès, the Messenger, killer of Argos. He said, and all obey the lord Zeus the son of Cronos. In haste, the illustrious Biteux model in the earth the shape of a virgin chaste, according to the will of the Cronide. The goddess with her eyes, Athéné, wears her and kneads her belt. Around her neck, the divine Graces (and) the august Persuasion put on gold necklaces; all around her the Hours with beautiful hair have garlands of spring flowers. Pallas Athéné adjusts all his fineness to his body. And, in his womb, the Messenger, the killer of Argos, creates lies, deceptive words, artificial heart, as Zeus wants with heavy rumbling. Then, herald of the gods, he puts the word in her and gives this woman the name of "Pandora", because it is all (pan in Greek) the inhabitants of Olympus who, with this present, present unhappiness to the men who eat bread." — Hesiod, The Work and the Days, v.59-82, trad. Paul Mazon