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Pandora's box is an artefact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. [1] Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind.
The game's prologue slide show shows the original myth of Pandora's Box; in reality, Pandora's Box was a device of incredible power. In the early 21st century, archaeologists found the artifact in a ruin at the bottom of the ocean. Unable to pinpoint its origins, they place the artifact in a New York City museum for safe keeping.
Pandora's Box won GameSpot ' s "Puzzles and Classics Game of the Year" award. The editors wrote that it "proved that [Pajitnov] was more than just the king of the simple game." [3] It was a runner-up for Computer Games Strategy Plus ' s 1999 "Classic Game of the Year" award and Computer Gaming World ' s 1999 "Puzzle/Classics Game of the Year ...
Elpis was the remaining item enclosed in Pandora's box (or jar), the best known form of the myth found in Hesiod’s Works and Days. [1] There Hesiod expands upon the misery inflicted on mankind through the curiosity of Pandora.
(Hindu mythology/Buddhist mythology/Jain mythology) Brahmanda Astra , it is said in the epic Mahabharata that the weapon manifests with the all five heads of Lord Brahma as its tip. Brahma earlier lost his fifth head when he fought with Lord Shiva .
The game was released in North America during August 2009, as Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. It would be released in PAL regions during September of the same year, as Professor Layton and Pandora's Box, [1] where it would become the fastest-selling Nintendo DS game ever released within the United Kingdom. [34] [35]
Pandora, the artificially-created human key to opening Pandora's Box in God of War III; Pandora, a character in the Guitar Hero series of video games; Pandora, an antagonist in the anime Futari wa Pretty Cure (originally named Poisony) Pandora, a character in the Kid Icarus series of video games; Pandora, one of the antagonists in the Mega Man ...
The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given.