Pausanias' Description of Greece

Pandora

Family: Greek mythology · Role: first woman · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 24

Life events

  • Pandora is born as the first woman, according to Hesiod.(Book 1 · Chapter 24)
    • With: Hesiod
    • “a representation of the birth of Pandora, the first woman according to Hesiod and other poets”

Book 1 · Chapter 24

  • with Hesiod (Hesiod is cited as a source for the account of Pandora.) “On the base of the statue is a representation of the birth of Pandora, the first woman according to Hesiod and other poets, for before her there was no race of women.”

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