Pandora's Jar — Mediterranean & Southern Europe (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to ancient Greece, to a poem a farmer named Hesiod wrote for his brother around seven hundred years before the common era. It was never a box — it was a pithos, the big clay storage jar that stood in the corner of every farmhouse with the grain or the oil in it. The box came from a translator's slip in the sixteenth century. And when everything had gone out of it and the lid came down, one thing was still inside, right at the bottom, and nobody has agreed for three thousand years about what that means.
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