"Hesiod's comments, though certainly a product of a mindset that stretches back millennia, are undoubtedly misogynistic since he says that Philotes and Apate belong to Aphrodite and all women. This point of view is hardly surprising; after all, it was Hesiod who first documented the myth of Pandora, she who unleashed all evil on the world. In fact, prior to the creation of "woman", humans did not know death. So, on the advent of woman's entrance into the world, Hesiod writes that deceitful words and death accompanied her too.[49]" --