The Religion of the Ancient Greeks

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The Religion of the Ancient Greeks
Leclerc De Sept -Chênes
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He called ^* lier Pandora^ becaufe the gods had loaded her ^th gifts. The fon of Prometheus received t:he fatal prefent as it was brought to him by.
^e meffenger of the gods. This imprudent youth, at the fight of fo much beauty, forgot the wife counfels of his father. Pandora opeiW ed a box which had been given her by Jupi* ter, and inftantly every evil rufhed out of it* Envy and care, and grief and difeafe, and what* ever afflifts unhappy mortals, immediately over- fpread the earth ; while not
...hing remained tQ confole them but Hope.
Almost all nations have had recourfe to Tantatai allegory in their accounts of moral evil. Be-* fides the fable of Pandora, the Greeks had that of Tantalus. His hiftory has been disfigur&i by mythologifts, when they have repeated that this prince ferved up to die inhabitants of O-p .
lympus his own fon Pclops at a feaft. ** It ig " abfurd, fays Pindar, to accufe the gods of " injuftice or cruelty. If there ever was a ** mortal on whom they laviflied their fiivours, ^* it was Tantalus ; but he knew not the art ** of being happy.


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