An engraving titled "Epimetheus opening Pandora's box," by the Italian printmaker Giulio Bonasone, 1531 to after 1576. Epimetheus is shown accepting Pandora and her sealed jar from the gods, despite his brother Prometheus's warning never to accept a gift from Zeus, releasing the troubles of human life into the world in Hesiod's telling. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints, under accession 64.682.102.
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