![Pandora's Box" was actually "Pandora's Jar": A translation error made 500 years ago has persisted to this day. | The Vintage News Pandora's Box" was actually "Pandora's Jar": A translation error made 500 years ago has persisted to this day. | The Vintage News](https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/65/2016/09/lkijuhgf.jpg)
Pandora's Box" was actually "Pandora's Jar": A translation error made 500 years ago has persisted to this day. | The Vintage News
Latină-Greacă veche la UAIC Iaşi România - Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora's creation in Hesiod's Works and Days. The "box" was actually a
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Emily Hanna-Grazebrook on X: "Pandora's 'box' was actually jar 'pithos'. Erasmus misread as 'pyxis', meaning box. #FolkloreThursday #storytelling https://t.co/N7FXkITiUl" / X
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