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What links Diogenes' barrel and Pandora's box?

In the expression "Pandora's box", the word "box" appeared as a result of a mistranslation of the Greek word πίθος. In fact, the ancient Greeks called pithos a large earthen vessel buried in the ground, in which they stored grain, wine, oil, or buried people, so it is more appropriate to call Pandora's box Pandora's cup. By the way, it was in the pithos, and not in the barrel, that the philosopher Diogenes of Sinop lived, since the ancient Greeks did not know how to make barrels.

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