Part one of term paper
Hesiod and Aeschylus both tell the tale of , the god that stole fire from Olympus and gave it to man. Each author takes a different position on the matter: Hesiod condemns and man, while Aeschylus celebrates them, which is evident in several characteristics of the myth. First, the role of the female in the relationship between man and gods ...

Part two of term paper
... with all the evils in the world and was told not to open it. What does she do? She opens it. And released all the evils into the world, hope alone remained in the box. Aeschylus, on the other hand, uses the figure of Io as a sweet, innocent woman who was tormented by the gods and whose ancestor will free one day. He doesn’t even mention Pandora and the punishment of mankind. Io refused to sleep with Zeus and, in return she was exiled from home and was constantly hounded by the gadfly, ...