Shayna
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ky_devil_pup
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pandora's box was a box that was given to a lady in greek mythology, it was said to hold the worlds pestilence and salvation and that she was never to open it. she did and when she did she let out the worlds pestilence and closed it in time to trap hope in. i never quite knew what was meant by she trapped hope in it, but think that it means that man's pestilence will one day wipe us out, unless the hope is realeased first |
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ravi
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In Greek Mythology,Pandora ("all gifted") was the first woman, fashioned by Zeus as part of a punishment towards mankind for Prometheus having stolen the secret of fire.
The titan Epimetheus ("hindsight") was responsible for giving a positive trait to each and every animal. However, when it was time to give man a positive trait, there was nothing left. Prometheus ("foresight"), his brother, felt that because man was superior to all other animals, man should have a gift no other animal possessed. So Prometheus set forth to steal fire from Zeus and handed it over to man.
Zeus was enraged and decided to punish Prometheus and his creation: mankind. To punish Prometheus, Zeus chained him in unbreakable fetters and set a vulture over him to eat his liver each day. Prometheus was an immortal, so the liver grew back every day, but he was still tormented daily from the pain.
To punish mankind, Zeus ordered the other gods to make Pandora as a poisoned gift for man. Pandora was given several traits from the different gods: Hephaestus molded her out of clay and gave her form; Athena clothed her and adorned her with necklaces made by Hephaestus as well as taught her manual dexterity and how to spin; Aphrodite gave her beauty; Apollo gave her musical talent and a gift for healing; Demeter taught her to tend a garden; Poseidon gave her a pearl necklace and the ability to never drown; Zeus made her idle, mischievous, and foolish; Hera gave her curiosity; Hermes, along with giving her cunning, boldness and charm, then gave Pandora a box.
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Before he was chained to the rock, Prometheus had warned Epimetheus not to take any gifts from the gods. Epimetheus did not listen to his brother, however, and when Pandora arrived, he fell in love with her. Hermes told him that Pandora was a gift to the titan from Zeus, and he warned Epimetheus to not open the box, which was Pandora's dowry.
Until then, mankind had lived a life in a paradise without worry. Epimetheus told Pandora never to open the box she had received from Zeus. However, one day, Pandora's curiosity got the better of her and she opened it, releasing all the misfortunes of mankind (plague, sorrow, poverty, crime, etc.). Once opened, she shut it in time to keep one thing in the box: hope. The world remained extremely bleak for an unspecified interval, until Pandora "chanced" to revisit the box again, at which point Hope fluttered out. Thus, mankind always has hope in times of evil, but Hope has a great deal of catching up to do. (See also Garden of Eden.)
The daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora was Pyrrha, who married Deucalion and was one of the two who survived the deluge
The story of Pandora's Box can be interpreted in more than one way, but one obvious moral is that of "curiosity killed the cat".
Some scholars contend that Pandora's "box" may have been a mistranslation, and her "box" may have been a large jar or vase, forged from the earth. In fact, there is evidence that suggests Pandora herself was the jar. In Ancient Greece jars commonly bore images of women. The jar was said to have been in a jar form because of the similarites between a jar and a woman's uterus.
The mistranslation is usually attributed to the 16th Century Humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam when he translated Hesiod's tale of Pandora. Hesiod uses the word "pithos" which refers to a jar used to store grain. It is possible that Erasmus confused "pithos" with "pyxis" which means box.
Hope is considered an evil in this story because according to Hesiod it implies the control of the future, and since no one can control the future, to have hope is to be deluded. Other people think that Hope being left in the box symbolizes Hope often being humanity's only comfort.
The tale of Pandora's Box also shows how Early Greeks imagined woman to be created by the Gods as evil on the inside and beautiful on the outside in order to make men miserable. In this way, the tale has, on some superficial levels, similiarities with many Judeo-Christian stories.
Various feminist scholars believe that in an earlier set of myths, Pandora was the Great Goddess, provider of the gifts that made life and culture possible, and that Hesiod's tale can be seen as part of a propaganda campaign to demote her from her previously revered status. For an alternate view of Pandora, see Charlene Spretnak: Lost Goddesses of Early Greece; A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Mythology, 1978. For an alternate view of goddesses in general, and stories such as those of Eve and Pandora regarding women and evil, see Merlin Stone: When God Was a Woman. |
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timvansickel
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It's a story about a girl named pandora, the first woman ever according to greek mythology. She's given a box by Zues that she's not allowed to open. When she opens it out of curiosity, all the bad things in the world came out. But when she opened it again, to see if there was anything left, out came hope. |
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sng8man
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pandora's box is the same thing as the canal we all came out of at birth |
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pgg90789
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some thing you should'nt open. |
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Curious George
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it is something you don't open and if you open it you can blame yourselfe b/c you were warned |
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writerbynature
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This comes from an ancient Greek myth about a curious mortal. The myth is told in detail at the link below: |
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bubblesluvssanta
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a box that if you open all hell will breake lose. |
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dashiznititis
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According to Greek Mythology,Pandora was the first woman on Earth. The Gods of Mount Olympus gave Pandora great beauty,as well as a box that they told her never to open. However she was soon overcome by temptation,and lifted the lid to the mysterious box. When she did,all the evil and disease,and sorrows of the mind entered into the world. Only hope,the one good thing within the box ,remained to comfort humanity in it's misfortunes.Since the time of the Greeks,to open Pandoras Box,has meant to explore the forbidden and pay the consequences. |
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billybob3165
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it is a mediphorical term used to describe something that should not be messed with, it literally goes back to the acient greek and roman mythology of a woman named Pandora who found a magical box that the gods hid, it had a warning that said do not open, for tyhe horrors of the underworld will come out, or something to that effect, she resists the tempation for a long while, and then opens it, she then releases these hellish things onto the mortal world, and gets punished by the gods |
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greek guy
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According to Greek legend, Pandora was the first woman, made as a punishment to men, because--oddly enough--they had received the gift of fire. As her dowry, Pandora was given a box, with strict instructions not to open it. Though she didn't know it, the box contained all of the evil things that afflict mankind--sorrow, pain, etc. Before then, human beings lived in an Eden-like paradise. However, curiosity got the better of Pandora, and eventually she opened the box, releasing all these evils. She tried to close the box, but the only thing she managed to save was hope. Anyway, when we commonly refer to "opening Pandoras's box" we normally mean that we will release a host of evils that are better left untouched. |
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inxcalac
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It wasn't a box. It was a jar. Zeus gave it to Pandora with instructions never to open it. She did. It was unwise.
See http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/pandora.html |
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janitaa
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how did all evil get in the box? and how was the box made ? im ceruse |
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