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II2 LIZ WARMAN
within the context of early Greek literature. uncontroversiaVo In the
Theogony. Hesiod's race of women resembles drone-bees who stay inside
the beehive (EVToc8E IlEVOVTEC. 598). EAlTlc. figured as a woman in a
house. is associated in its immediate context with Pandora. the first
woman ever made. 2'
As Pandora is taken to wife by heedless Epimetheus. so. as Hesiod's
image implies. EAlTlc is admitted into Epimetheus' house. EAlTlc. like a
bride. lives with a man. becomes part of his household. Diseases. by
contrast. wander the world freely of their own devices (atJTOllaTol. Op.
103). completely beyond a householder's ken. 22 What Hesiod means. according
to Dover. is that man is the overseer of his own EATIIc, but at the
mercy of diseases. 2J This overstates the control men have over EATIlc.
Diseases, EAlTlc and Pandora are all divine gifts and therefore cannot be
avoided. They are part and parcel of the human condition. But whereas
diseases are known evils, never willingly accepted. EAlTlc is, like Pandora.
an evil that men will embrace (KaKov all