This Just In: Pandora's 'Box' Actually a Jar!

Nisbet-Hubbard on Horace Odes 1.3.29:

Pandora is surprisingly little mentioned in classical literature; her 'box' was really a huge jar or pithos, mistranslated by Erasmus in his Adagia as pyxis.

'Our Thermopylae'?

So says Al Gore:

Testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning, Al Gore said that climate change presented America with its Thermopylae moment. You can't say he doesn't try to catch the zeitgeist...