Research: Pandora’s Box

Pandora’s Box Research 

Pandora's Box is a legendary box in Greek mythology. It was carried by Pandora and contained all of mankind’s worst fears such as illness. In some variations it also healed many evil creatures like Gollum’s and Griffins and the Kraken like in that game Legendary. But anyway, one day Pandora was given a gift by Curiosity, and she opened the box unleashing all the evils inside. 

This is the basic story below. The expression is used when somebody starts something, usually troublesome, that cannot be stopped. Find the story in Greek Mythology. I'm surprised at your teacher's ignorance. Pandora opened the box given to her by Zeus after being told never to open it. When she did so, all the troubles in the world were released. 

After Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create the woman Pandora as part of the punishment for mankind. Pandora was given many seductive gifts from Aphrodite, Hermes, Hera, Charities, and Horae (according to Works and Days). For fear of additional reprisals, Prometheus warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus, but Epimetheus did not listen, and married Pandora. Pandora had been given a large jar and instruction by Zeus to keep it closed, but she had also been given the gift of curiosity, and ultimately opened it. When she opened it, all of the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labor that mankind had not known previously, escaped from the jar, but it is said, that at the very bottom of her box, there lay hope. 

According to Hesiod Hope indeed stayed inside because that was Zeus’ will; he wanted to let people suffer in order to understand that they should not disobey their gods. Pandora was the right person to do it, because she was curious enough, but not malicious.

The myth of Pandora’s box has been fascinating people since ever, catching the imagination of countless artists, who created frescos, mosaics and sculptures depicting Pandora and the mythological elements. The myth itself though appears in many different versions; the most distinctive difference is that in some myths Hope does come out. The main purpose of the myth of Pandora though is to address the question of why evil exists in the world.