Pandora (daughter of Deucalion) explained

In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Πανδώρα, derived from Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: πᾶς "all" and Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: δῶρον "gift", thus "all-gifted" or "all-giving")^[1] was Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion of Thessaly.^[2] She was named after her maternal grandmother, the more infamous Pandora.^[3]

Mythology

Pandora's mother was Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen and Thyia.^[4] Her other possible siblings were Protogeneia,^[5] Pronoos, Orestheus, Marathonius,^[6] Amphictyon,^[7] Melantho (Melantheia)^[8] and Candybus.^[9]

According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Pandora was the mother of Graecus by the god Zeus.

"And in the palace Pandora the daughter of noble Deucalion was joined in love with father Zeus, leader of all the gods, and bare Graecus, staunch in battle."^[10]

It has been debated whether Pandora is here Deukalion’s daughter or his wife, or neither.^[11]

In some accounts, Pandora's children by Zeus were called Melera and Pandorus.^[12]

References

• Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theoi.com
• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theoi.com
• West, M. L., The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1985. .

Notes and References

1. Evelyn-White, note to Hesiod, Works and Days 81.; Schlegel and Weinfield, "Introduction to Hesiod" p. 6; Meagher, p. 148; Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The Pandora-Eve Motif in Rabbinic Literature", The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1974), pp. 341-345
2. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 5 from Ioannes Lydus, de Mensibus 1.13; Gantz, p. 167; Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
3. West, p. 173
4. Hesiod, fr. 5, 7, 9 MW (Gantz, p. 167)
5. [Pherecydes of Syros|Pherecydes]
6. [Hecataeus of Abdera|Hecateus]
7. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
8. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 5 Most, pp. 46, 47 [= fr. 4 Merkelbach-West, p. 5 = Scholia on [[Homer]]'s Odyssey 10.2 (Dindorf, p. 444)]
9. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
10. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 5 from Ioannes Lydus, de Mensibus 1.13; Gantz, p. 167
11. West, p. 52, n. 38: "Wilamowitz, Hermes 34,1899, 610= Kl. Schr. iv.81, prefers to see her as his wife, so that Graikos may be on a level with Hellen. He is followed by Merkelbach, Chronique d’ Egypt 43, 1968, 144. Most scholars, however, have followed B. Niese, Hermes 12, 1877, 416 in taking her as Deukalion’s daughter. Casanova, op. cit. 176-87, argues that she is Epimetheus' ex-wife who has found lodging with her son-in-law. But she would hardly be called a κούρη in that case."
12. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21