Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Pandora's Light -- Pandora, Once Again -- The Genealogy of Pandora -- Misogynist Responses to Pandora -- Pandora's Wonder -- 2. Pandora and the Myth of Otherness -- From Mount Helicon to a Poetics of Otherness -- The Fantasy of Symbiosis between Men and Gods -- Ambiguities of Identity: The Case of Brothers -- The Loss of Sameness and the Birth of Eros -- The Didactic Imperative: Learn the Other -- 3. The Socratic Pandora -- Woman is the Ideal Listener -- The Naked Truth and the Adorned Lie -- The Seductions of Pandora -- Socrates and Theodote -- Socrates and Pandora -- 4. Pandora's Voice and the Emergence of Ovid's Poetic Persona -- Pandora's Voice -- From the Effeminate Elegy to the Feminine Text -- The Erotodidactic Persona -- Sappho's Lasciviousness -- The Lascivious Text -- 5. Feminine Subjectivity and the Self-Contradicting Text -- Ars and Remedia: Metadiscourse, Language Games, and the Problem of Sincerity -- The Palinodic Structure -- Palinode and Narrative -- Pandora's Lie -- A Girl's Rape and the Birth of Feminine Subjectivity -- 6. Pandora's Tears -- Feminine Weaving: Text, Textile, Body, Pain -- Helen's Web -- Listening Like a Woman: Penelope's Tears -- Odysseus Weeps Like a Woman -- Xanthippe's Tears -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.