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  2. Pandora - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Pandora (jewelry) - Wikipedia

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    Pandora A/S (often styled PANDORA) is a Danish jewelry manufacturer and retailer founded in 1982 by Per Enevoldsen. [8] The company started as a family-run jewelry shop in Copenhagen . Pandora is known for its customizable charm bracelets , designer rings, earrings, necklaces and (now discontinued) watches.

  4. Pandora (Greek myth) - Wikipedia

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    Pandora, first human woman created by the gods. [2] Pandora, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and thus, granddaughter of the above figure. [3] Pandora, an Athenian princess as the second eldest daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and probably Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia.

  5. Pandora's box - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Works and Days - Wikipedia

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    In the Theogony, Pandora and the "tribe of women" had been sent as a plague upon man in punishment for Prometheus's attempt to deceive Zeus of his deserved portion when men and gods were dividing a feast, and for his subsequent theft of fire. [6] In the Works and Days, Hesiod proceeds directly to the theft of fire and punishment.

  7. Pygmalion (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues or to make them move; of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop; of Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and (according to Hesiod) of Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus.

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  9. Pandora (daughter of Deucalion) - Wikipedia

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    Pandora's mother was Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen and Thyia. [4] Her other possible siblings were Protogeneia, [5] Pronoos, Orestheus, Marathonius, [6] Amphictyon, [7] Melantho [8] and Candybus. [9] According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Pandora was the mother of Graecus by the god Zeus.