Pandore - requiem pour une tragédie (2019) Painting by Jyb Le Peintre

Mythological accounts agree that Zeus, in revenge on Prometheus, ordered Vulcan to create the first human woman. The gods of Olympus offered him beauty, friendliness, skill, grace, intelligence, but also flattery, lies, curiosity, jealousy. Hermes himself taught him the art of deception, seduction, persuasion. Epimetheus, more vulnerable than his brother Prometheus, accepted this perfidious gift from Zeus and made her his wife. Pandora brought in her luggage a singular dowry: a jar containing the evils of humanity. Despite the absolute ban on opening it, curiosity was the strongest ... The cap barely removed, all the evils of humanity escaped and fell on men: Old Age, Sickness, War, Famine, Misery, Madness, Vice, Deception, Passion, Pride. Only Hope remained at the bottom of the jar. Until then, these evils did not exist. So what to think of the opinion of the Greek poet Hesiod, who put forward the idea that women are at the origin of men's misfortune? Opinion still shared today, which undulates in the collective memory and resurfaces with more or less force according to the events. Dangerous woman, femme fatale, woman instigator of bad actions. Could it not be due to our fears, our fears of the unknown, of the difference? The negation of our determinism of being alive? The inability to escape from our human condition?

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