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Pandora’s…Jar…Did the Translators Screw Up Again?

Posted by SAECULII on Friday, February 24, 2023, In : Japanese Translator

What’s the deal with Jar?

First, though, about that “Screw Up Again” part -- Translators screwing up seems to be as old as, well, the business of translation itself, the consequences profound. See Could a Translation Snafu Spawn a Fourth World War?

The “Jar”

At the crux of the matter is the word “pithos,” meaning “jar”, in the Pandora myth. In translation, “pithos” was rendered as “pyxis”, a Latin word for box or casket by Erasmus of Rotterdam. Erasmus was not the o...

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The “Jar”

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