Pandora: from Hesiod to Calderon. Authors and texts in the tradition of myth
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The aim of this article is to explore main authors, texts, interpretations and readings that shaped Pandora myth from antiquity to its reception in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially among the writers of the Spanish Golden Age (Gracian and Calderon). It is showed Hesiodic hypotext has been transformed since the ancient times for allegorical like moralizing readings, contaminationes, etc., promoting thereby the change and innovation in their narrative and iconographic elements.Downloads
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