The passages, which are complementary, of Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod dealing with the creation of the first woman both clearly and unusually break with the gender stereotypes and, as a consequence, there have been and there still are numerous interpretations of Pandora’s myth. On the following pages the historiographical trail of this myth is viewed from three broad analytical approaches, that is to say, by considering Pandora’s figure as a personification of fertility, by relating it to the advent of a complex social order and by focusing on its inclusion among the Athenian political myths
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