Pandora's Box and Other Greek Myths
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In this bedtime story, I tell you about four Greek myths: - Pandora and her jar (or box), which contained countless plagues that she let escape, providing a backstory for the existence of suffering in human life. This myth works as a "theodicy" (a backstory or an argument that explains why evil is part of the human condition when God(s) would have the power to avoid it). It is also connected to the biblical character of Eve. - The tragedy of the Danaïdes, daughters of King Danaus condemned to a futile task forever for the murders of their husbands. - Sisyphus, the king of Corinth, was sentenced to another eternity of useless work for defying Zeus and cheating death. - Icarus, the young man who flew too close to the sun and fell.