{"id":18416,"date":"2021-10-06T10:08:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18416"},"modified":"2021-10-06T10:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:08:52","slug":"pandoras-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2021\/10\/06\/pandoras-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora\u2019s jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pandora%27s_box#Etymology_of_the_%22box%22\">Pandora\u2019s box<\/a>, Wikipedia says:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>The word translated as <i>box<\/i> was actually a large jar (\u03c0\u03af\u03b8\u03bf\u03c2 <i>pithos<\/i>) in Greek. [\u2026] Many scholars see a close analogy between Pandora herself, who was made from clay, and the clay jar which dispenses evils.<\/p>\r\n<p>The mistranslation of <i>pithos<\/i> is usually attributed to the 16th century humanist Erasmus who, in his Latin account of the story of Pandora, changed the Greek <i>pithos<\/i> to <i>pyxis<\/i>, meaning <i>box<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18417,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416\/revisions\/18417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}