Nisbet-Hubbard on Horace Odes 1.3.29:
Pandora is surprisingly little mentioned in classical literature; her ‘box’ was really a huge jar or pithos, mistranslated by Erasmus in his Adagia as pyxis.
Nisbet-Hubbard on Horace Odes 1.3.29:
Pandora is surprisingly little mentioned in classical literature; her ‘box’ was really a huge jar or pithos, mistranslated by Erasmus in his Adagia as pyxis.