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Pandora

This red figure volute krater, ca. 450 B.C., shows two scenes from the Pandora myth. To the left, Zeus sends Hermes off to give Pandora to Epimetheus. In addition to his regular attributes here Hermes carries a flower in his left hand, perhaps repesentative of gift-giving. To the right of this pair stands Epimetheus, who looks attentively at Pandora as she rises from the ground, with a small Eros figure above her. Because Epimetheus carries a hammer in one hand, some scholars have connected this scene with Sophocles’ (lost) satyr play called Pandora or The Hammerers.