• I was the first woman invented by
Prometheus on the order of Zeus
(Also Hephaestus)
• Gods showered me with the gifts
of womankind, beauty, intuition,
persuasion, & the ability to pack
suitcases
• I was given to Prometheus
brother Epimetheus along with a
box that they said should Not Be
Open!
• I took a little peek into the box
and bam! All of the evils of the
world burst out! I’m blamed for all
the problems in the world.
• Aphrodite adorned me with beauty,
grace, & desire
• Hermes gave me cunning & boldness
• Demeter showed me how to tend a
garden
• Athena gave me my soul and thought
me manual dexterity
• Apollo taught me how to sing sweetly
& play the lyre
• Poseidon gave me a pearl necklace
& promised me I would never drown
• Hera gave me curiosity
• Zeus made me foolish, mischievous,
& idle
• Pandora
• Both
• Eve
• I opened the box and
let out all the evils of
the world
• Eve and I are both
foolish
• She didn’t listen to
God about eating
the fruit from the
tree
• I get blamed for the
troubles
• We don’t listen to
are ruler on what
they have to say
• I married to
Epimetheus
• We both made big
mistakes
• I’m compared to Eve
in Christian Life
• Eve and I got
fooled to doing
something under to
much pressure
• I make a lot of
mistakes and don’t
listen to what other
people say
• I get anything I want
• We both were hurt
after we did that
• We are just alike
• She was tricked
by Satan into eating
the apple
• She ate the apple
became naked and
god yelled at her
• She’s foolish and
makes mistakes by
not listening
• Her husband is
Adam
• My box is often used today as
an expression to describe
danger, confusion, or trouble
• My box contained disease,
pain, sorrow, insanity, envy, &
death
• When I closed the box I left
behind the most important thing
which is hope
• Zeus gave me the box and my
curiosity came over me
As his gift to mankind, Zeus ordered Hermes, to deliver me to
Epimetheus. Epimetheus was struck by my beauty and charm and he
accepted me as his bride, even though his brother Prometheus told him not
to accept gifts from Zeus. I was given a sealed glass jar by the gods to give
as a gift to man. I had not been told what it carried, and I wasn’t on earth
every long before my curiosity got the better of me. I was told not to open
it but I was to anxious not to. I opened the jar and out flew the plagues of
mankind. These included such afflictions as disease, pain, sorrow, insanity,
envy, and death. As I went to close the jar I trapped the last thing inside of
it. This one member left behind-hope.
Another myth states that the box containing all the evils of the
world was kept in a jar or box in the house of Epimetheus. Whether it
belonged to Epimetheus or Prometheus is not known. I, overcame by my
feminine curiosity, stole to the room and removed the lid. Out came all the
evils of the world and hope was once trapped again when I shut close the
jar.
Other myth sad the box didn’t contain evils at all. Instead it
contain only goodness & blessings, & was meant to be a wedding present
from Zeus. My curiosity overcame me and opened the box carelessly. All
the blessings escaped & returned to the heavens, save-one hope.
• Weakness ~ Deceitful but the gods
made me that way
• Parents ~ I was made by Hephaestus at
the request of Zeus and adorned by
Athena and Aphrodite. But another story
says she was the creation of Prometheus
and Epimetheus.
• Spouse ~ Epimetheus
• I was created on Mt. Olympus
• Name Mean ~ “One who gives all gifts”
• Zeus made Hephaestus mix
earth with water, & having
made the form a sweet lovely
woman
• When Hephaestus mounded
the clay Athena clothed me
and provided me with fine
manners and teaching her
needlework
• The Olympians gave me
each a gift
• Horae crowned my head
with flowers
• Charites put necklaces of
gold around me
•The Everything Classical Mythology Book
•http://www.ballpoint.org/greekgods/pandora.htm
•http://www.theoi.com/Heroine/Pandora.html
•http://gogreece.about.com/od/mythology/a/mythopan
dora.htm
•http://www.fjkluth.com/pandora.html
•http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Pandora.ht
ml
• http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Pandora1.html