Pandora (daughter of Deucalion)

This article is about daughter of Pyrrha, who in turn is a daughter of the elder Pandora. For other uses, see Pandora (Greek myth).

In Greek mythology, Pandora (Ancient Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶς "all" and δῶρον "gift", thus "all-gifted" or "all-giving")[1] was Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion of Thessaly.[2] She was named after her maternal grandmother, the more infamous Pandora.[3]

  1. ^ Evelyn-White, note to Hesiod, Works and Days 81.; Schlegel and Weinfield, "Introduction to Hesiod" p. 6; Meagher, p. 148; Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The Pandora-Eve Motif in Rabbinic Literature", The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1974), pp. 341-345
  2. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 5 from Ioannes Lydus, de Mensibus 1.13; Gantz, p. 167; Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
  3. ^ West, p. 173