Hesiod, the Four Races, and Prometheus - incoherences

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 21037
Date: 2003-04-16

1) Prometheus stole the Fire and brought it to the "man".
 
What man? Of what race?
 
2) The Four Races
Golden - happy and peaceful, opulent. Reign of Kronos.
Silver - eager, turbulent and mad. First attempt of Zeus?
Bronze - warriors that didnt eat wheater; armoured, made of ash-tree.
Heroes
Iron - Hesiod's race, our race.
 
What race was destroyed by Deucalion's Flood? Books usually stated that was the Bronze men, but Hesiod is not clear.
 
3) Pandora
 
Pandora is usually described as the "First Woman", created by the gods. But I think this is not true. She was an Artificial Woman created to seduce Epimetheus. Obviously she became mother of Pyrrha and ancestor of Post-Diluvian people, but she was not wife of a "first man" (like Adam and Eve), as we could deduce logically. Unless we see Epimetheus as this First Man.
 
Joao SL