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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.
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.
Panofsky, Dora and Erwin, Pandoras Box - The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol, Bollingen Series 52, New York 1956; Phipps, William E., Eve and Pandora Contrasted, in Theology Today, v.45, n.1, April 1988, pp. 34–48; Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary. Pucci, Pietro, Hesiod and the Language of Poetry (Baltimore 1977)
According to Hesiod, who related the tale twice (Theogony, 527ff; Works and Days 57ff), Epimetheus was the one who accepted the gift of Pandora from the gods. Their marriage may be inferred (and was by later authors), but it is not made explicit in either text.
Pandora is a young woman created by the Roman god of fire, Vulcan, on Jupiter's orders. Jupiter uses Pandora to take revenge on Prometheus for defying the Olympian gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity. Jupiter gives Pandora a box containing all of humanity's evils and crimes, which she must give to Epimetheus, whom she is ...
Pandora, an Athenian princess as the second eldest daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and probably Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia. Together with her sister Protogeneia , they sacrificed herself on behalf of their country when an army came from Boeotia during the war between Athens and Eleusis .
Pandora's Box, a feature on the eleventh season of the television series Big Brother; Pandora's box, represented as "The Pandorica", a box created to hold the Doctor in the 2010 Doctor Who episode "The Pandorica Opens"
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