Montevideo, Uruguay.(Sandra Massera directed Prometeo y la jarra de Pandora awarded with ITI/UNESCO/Centro Cultural de Espana prize)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, November, 2005 by Estvanik, Nicole
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TEATRO DEL UMBRAL: Blame Erasmus for the fact that we all think Pandora focused her insatiable curiosity on a box rather than a curvier receptacle, says playwright Carlos Rehermann: Apparently the 15th-century Dutch humanist didn't know the Greek word for "jar," and his mistranslation has endured.
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In fact, jars bore for the Greeks an extra layer of significance because of their place in female fertility rites, and ...
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