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CHAPTER III.

LEGEND OF THE IAPETIDS.

Iapetids in Hesiod.—Promêtheus and Epimêtheus.—Counter-manœuvring of Promêtheus and Zeus.—Pandôra.—Pandôra in the Theogony.—General feeling of the poet.—Man wretched, but Zeus not to blame.—Mischiefs arising from women.—Punishment of Promêtheus.—The Promêtheus of Æschylus.—Locality in which Promêtheus was confined. 73-80