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As a result, the game was re-released in a "Puzzle Game of the Year Edition", containing an additional 50 puzzles. During the 3rd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, Pandora's Box received a nomination for "Computer Family Entertainment Title of the Year" by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. [7]
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.
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.
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]
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.
(Mormon mythology) Urim and Thummim, a set of seer stones bound in a breastplate, or by silver bows into a set of spectacles. (Mormon mythology) Lapis manalis (Stone of the Manes), was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman religion. One covered a gate to Pluto, abode of the dead; Festus called it ostium Orci, "the gate of Orcus". The ...
According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Pandora was the mother of Graecus by the god Zeus. "And in the palace Pandora the daughter of noble Deucalion was joined in love with father Zeus, leader of all the gods, and bare Graecus, staunch in battle." [10] It has been debated whether Pandora is here Deukalion’s daughter or his wife, or ...
Pandora's Box is referenced in a 1995 episode of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess entitled "Cradle of Hope". Professor Layton and Pandora's Box [Diabolical Box] USA - In the second game of the Professor Layton series Luke and Layton set out on finding Pandora's Box and finding out the curse behind it. Though in the end the Professor ...