Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol

by Dora Panofsky and Erwin Panofsky

Book Overview

Pandora was the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calder n, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora's box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691018243
• ISBN13: 9780691018249
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Learned and fascinating, with great pictures

My only reason for writing anything about this book - a classic co-written by Erwin Panofsky, a scholar of enormous learning - is to rectify the absurd fact that the child who reviewed it before me gave it 1 star (s/he was looking for a pop-up book) and thus ruined its Customer Rating. If you are interested in iconography, the development of myths, or the origin (surprisingly late) of Pandora's Box, you will certainly enjoy this fine work.