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
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.
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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