pithos

Moreover, the pithos selected was not among the largest.

The word pithos has been translated the wrong way, which may have led to the idea of "Pandora's box".

The word in the original text is pithos, which usually refers to a large container; used to store wine or other things.

Hesiod's pithos refers to a storage jar for oil or grain.

Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos.

An enemy had only to knock over a pithos full of oil and touch a torch to it to produce a major conflagration.

Erasmus, however, translated pithos into the Latin word pyxis, meaning "box".

According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos) and released all the evils of mankind.

Erasmus rendered pithos as the Greek pyxis, meaning "box".

Like the ceramic bathtubs of some periods, the size of a pithos made it a convenient coffin.

In warfare the pithos full of the incendiary olive oil was a liability to the defense of a palace.

Pithos has two irreconcilable derivations, classical and Mycenaean.

Pithos into "box"

Prometheus gave him Pandora's pithos, which he later gave to Hestia to give her hope.

The Greek word pithos is used for a large jar, used for example for storing wine.

The mistranslation of pithos as "box" is usually attributed to the 16th century humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam.

The amphora complements the large storage container, the pithos, which makes available capacities between one-half and two and one-half tons.

Eurystheus, who hid in his pithos at first sight of the creature, wanted to sacrifice the bull to Hera, who hated Heracles.

Slack rope lifts nothing; moreover, a rope around the neck of the pithos for lifting would only concentrate the weight on the neck, probably shattering it.

All the large pithoi featured circumferential bands of thicker clay strengthening the joints where sections of the pithos were lowered onto each other and fused together.

The word "Pithotomy" was invented by MacCallum when he combined the Greek words pithos, meaning vessel, and otomos, meaning to open.

The king was so frightened of the beast, he jumped into a pithos, and asked Heracles to return it to the underworld in return for releasing him from his labours.

Where the pithos may have multiple small loops or lugs for fastening a rope harness, the amphora has two expansive handles joining the shoulder of the body and a long neck.

The original Greek word was 'pithos', which is a large jar, sometimes as large as a small person (Diogenes of Sinope was said to have once slept in one).

Ventris and Chadwick do not exclude fiscus from necessarily being related to pithos, they only point out that, if such is the derivation, the process is more complex than previously thought.