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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.
Pandora's Box, subtitled A Fable From the Age of Science, is a BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis looking at the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. It won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 1993.
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.
Our president-elect has blown the lid off a Pandora’s box of resentments, fears, and hatreds that now saturate the air we breathe. ... and that is to resist the moral arrogance that afflicts the ...
“It’s the opening of a Pandora’s box and it’s a very, very sad thing that’s happened with this whol Trump warns of 'Pandora's box' of perpetual presidential prosecutions if charges ...
The federal lawsuit sparked by San Jose State possibly having a transgender woman on its volleyball team ought to terrify everyone. Not for any of the trumped-up “reasons” cited by the ...
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.
What is the moral of Pandora’s Box? What else might have come from Pandora's box? It is to be assumed that she believed that it contained wealth or something.