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The gods were lazing around Mount Olympus, complaining that they got no respect anymore from human beings, who once feared them so much they went out of their way to appease the immortals. “It’s all your fault,” Hera says to her husband Zeus, king of the gods. “If you hadn’t given that silly jar to that female human Pandora and tempted her to open it and let out all the evils of humanity.” “I remember her she was a lovely woman, the first female I had created out of the mud.
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Nowlan, R.A. (2017). Islamic Golden Age and Beyond. In: Masters of Mathematics. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-893-8_25
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