Pandora (daughter of Deucalion)
Appearance
In Greek mythology, Pandora (Ancient Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶς "all" and δῶρον "gift", thus "all-gifted" or "all-giving")[1] was a daughter of King Deucalion and Pyrrha who was named after her maternal grandmother, the more famous Pandora. Her brother was Hellen
According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (fr. 5), she was the mother of Graecus by the god Zeus.[2] . In some accounts, Pandora's children by Zeus were called Melera and Pandorus.[3]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Catalogue of Women by Hesiod
- ^ Clement of Alexandria. Recognitions, 21