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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 41, March 2022

Pandora is a woman

Jomana Khaled - Statistics
Jumana.khaled2020@feps.edu.eg
According to the Greek myths Zeus -the god of the sky- Zeus found out about it and he went crazy, as a
had revolted against his father Cronus -the lord of the punishment for Prometheus, he took away the fire from the
earth and the sky-. Once he had been established as a human being and he condemned him to darkness for
servant of Cronus, Zeus was given a mixture of mustard eternity.
and wine that he gave to Cronus which caused him to
vomit out his swallowed children. Zeus and his siblings
waged a war against the rest of the Gods and the Titans
and became the superior of Gods. Zeus and his siblings
won the war and imprisoned the Titans in the depth of the
earth except for Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus,
Zeus forgave them and gave them tasks. In order to
reconstruct the earth, Zeus had commanded Prometheus to
create human beings and Epimetheus to create animals, he
gave them the bag of gifts and told them to distribute the
gifts equally to the creatures. Epimetheus created all the
animals and gave them from the bag of gifts the speed,
ferocity, ability to fly, predation, and others. Meanwhile,
Prometheus was so busy creating his creature -human-
from only sand and water, when he was done and wanted
to give the human beings some gifts, he found out that his
brother had used them all up! Prometheus sympathized This punishment of Zeus hurt Prometheus so much
with the human so he gave him the privilege of standing because how can humans live with no fire? The animals
us and walking with his legs, and also gave him the fire. will eat him and he won’t be able to survive. Prometheus
Prometheus even went to Athena -goddess of wisdom, sneaked behind Zeus and climbed the Olymp mountain,
handcrafting, and war-and made her give the human the stole the fire flame, and returned back with it to give it to
ability to think and handcrafting. Our issue began when the human! Of course, we can imagine Zeus’s anger when
the relationship between Prometheus and the human he knew about it, it’s the second time for Prometheus to
turned from pity into love. He was helping the human in fool him. Zeus had Inflicted the most severe punishment
everything and providing all of his needs. Prometheus has upon both Prometheus and the human.
gone so far that when Zeus was deciding the sacrifice he Prometheus’s eternal punishment was being to the top of a
will give to each kind of creature, Prometheus has mountain and every morning an eagle comes to eat his
deceived Zeus into giving the human being the most of the liver very slowly, and at night a new liver comes to
sacrifice and the rest to the gods. Prometheus because the next day the eagle comes to eat it
again.. and so on.
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