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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 Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world, according to which, Pandora opened a jar (pithos; commonly referred to as "Pandora's box") releasing all the evils of humanity.
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.
It does not judge a person,” Chin said. Prop 1 has opened a Pandora’s Box — by throwing in a kitchen sink of supposed protections for residents that conflict with each other, opponents said.
"Once you admit that this happened, it is a Pandora['s] box," said Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist who currently leads investigative work for The Insider.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized a call between Germany’s chancellor and Russian President Vladimir Putin as opening a “Pandora’s box” that only works to undermine ...
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 ...
Girl group Pandora's Box went on to record it, and it was subsequently made famous through a cover by Celine Dion, which upset Meat Loaf because he was going to use it for a planned album with the working title Bat Out of Hell III. [4]