can you please help me to look the summary of Pandoras box( a greek mythology story)?

Question

together with the settings and the lesson of the story

Answer 1

This myth explains the consequences for mortals as well as
gods who exhibit excessive pride, or hubris. Many Greeks learned the hard
way.They angered and defied the gods with their behavior and poor choices
and were usually severely punished.
In this Myth of Prometheus, a wise Titan named Prometheus and hisbrother, Epimetheus, are ordered by Zeus to create man and animals. While
Prometheus is designing man, Epimetheus takes all of the great skills and abil-
ities like speed and strength and assigns them to the animals.There are no
qualities left to give to man to insure his survival and superiority over the
animals, so Prometheus decides to give man the gift of fire. Although forbid-
den by Zeus, Prometheus decides that the importance of giving fire to man
would outweigh the punishment that Zeus would inflict upon him.
Prometheus creeps up to Mt. Olympus, steals a burning candle from Zeus’
throne, and gives it to man. Zeus punishes Prometheus by chaining him to a
cliff and sending a horrible eagle to eat his liver every day. Since Prometheus
is immortal and cannot die, he spends eternity suffering in terrible pain for
defying the gods.The Myth of Pandora involves Zeus’ retaliation against mankind for accept-
ing the gift of fire from Prometheus. Zeus sends to earth the first mortal
woman, Pandora, who has been given special gifts from each of the gods.
Zeus gives her the gift of curiosity, along with a beautiful box to celebrate
her wedding to Epimetheus. Zeus advises her, however, to never open the
box.Try as she might, Pandora can not stop thinking about the box and its
contents. Finally, her curiosity gets the better of her, and she lifts the lid. Out
swarms a horde of miseries like greed, vanity and disease. Pandora quickly
replaces the lid, but not before all the evils escape into the world. Hope,
however, is left in the box to help mankind through the hardest of times.

Answer 2

The version I got in Intro to Greek Mythology is that Pandora's 'jar' was actually a metaphor for her womb. She was created by Zeus, with the help of some other gods as a punishment for mankind, and as something to set against the fire which Prometheus gave them. So basically, she comes down from Olympus with her "jar" (aka womb) as a trap for men, spreads her legs and out come all the diseases, curses, hatred and jealousy. But what especially sucks is that Hope is still in there, trapped in her womb!! So the only hope for Men is to keep having sex with women in the hopes of having children. IOW, Pandora is basically the original 'Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.' archetype.

Answer 3

Go to your local library and take out Edith Hamilton's 'Mythololgy' or 'Bulfinch's Mythology'. You can even use a search engine online. We're not here to do your homework for you.

Answer 4

story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora
lesson: do not let curiousity overcome u..and the point of the story is to show the origin of all evil
setting: greece of coarse

Answer 5

In Greek mythology, Pandora ("all gifted") was the first woman. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to make her as part of the punishment of mankind for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire. According to the myth, Pandora opened a container releasing all the miseries of mankind—greed, vanity, slander, envy, pining—leaving only hope inside.

The myth of Pandora is very old, appears in several distinct versions, and has been interpreted in many ways. In all literary versions, however, the myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world. Hesiod, both in his Theogony (briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570) and in Works and Days, ca. 700 BC, has a very early told and literary version of the Pandora story. In modern times, Pandora's Box has become a metaphor for the unanticipated consequences of technical and scientific development. The evidence of the vase-painters reveals another, earlier aspect of Pandora.

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, as Prometheus, his brother, had taken much longer to create man, 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, enraged, decided to punish Prometheus. To punish Prometheus, Zeus chained him in unbreakable fetters and set an eagle over him to eat his liver each day, as the eagle is Zeus's sacred animal. Prometheus was an immortal, so the liver grew back every day, but he was still tormented daily from the pain, until he was freed by Heracles during The Twelve Labours. Another possible reason for Prometheus' torment was because he knew which of Zeus' lovers would bear a child who would eventually overthrow Zeus. Zeus commanded that Prometheus reveal the name of the mother, but Prometheus refused, instead choosing to suffer the punishment.

However, Zeus also had to punish mankind. The punishment was woman. More specifically, Pandora, her name meaning 'all gifts'. Pandora was given several traits from the different gods: Hephaestus molded her out of clay and gave her form; Athena clothed her and the Charites adorned her with necklaces made by Hephaestus; 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; Hera gave her curiosity; Hermes gave her cunning, boldness, and charm.[citation needed] Zeus gave her insatiable curiosity and mischievousness. Thus the name Pandora—"all gifts"—in Hesiod's version derives from the fact that she received gifts from all deities.

The most significant of these gifts, however, was a pithos or storage jar, given to Pandora either by Hermes or Zeus. Before he was chained to the rock, Prometheus had warned Epimetheus not to take any gifts from the gods. However, when Pandora arrived, he fell in love with her. Hermes told Epimetheus that Pandora was a gift to the titan from Zeus, and he warned Epimetheus not to open the jar, which was Pandora's dowry.

Until then, mankind lived life in a paradise without worry. Epimetheus told Pandora never to open the jar she had received from Zeus. However, Pandora's curiosity got the better of her and she opened it, releasing all the misfortunes of mankind: "For ere this the tribes of men lived on earth remote and free from ills [kakoi] and hard toil [ponoi] and heavy sickness [nosoi argaleai] which bring the Keres [baleful spirits] upon men; for in misery men grow old quickly" (Hesiod, Works and Days). Once opened, she shut it in time to keep one thing in the jar: 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.

In another, more philosophical version of the myth, hope (Elpis) is considered the worst of the potential evils, because it is equated with terrifying foreknowledge. By preventing hope from escaping the jar, Pandora in a sense saves the world from the worst damage.

The daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora was Pyrrha, who married Deucalion and was one of the two who survived the deluge.

Problems and mistranslation
Most scholars contend that Pandora's "box" is a mistranslation, and her "box" may have been a large jar or vase, forged from the earth, perhaps because of similarities in shape between a jar and a woman's uterus . There is also evidence 3 to suggest that Pandora herself was the "jar".

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. The scholar M.L. West has written that Erasmus may have mixed up the story of Pandora with the story found elsewhere of a box which was opened by Psyche 5.

The original Greek text from 700 BC of Hesiod's Works and Days, whence we get the earliest extant story of Pandora and the jar, does not specify exactly what was in the box Pandora opened.

M.L. West has written that the story of Pandora and her jar is from a pre-Hesiodic myth, and that this explains the confusion and problems with Hesiod's version and its inconclusiveness. He writes that in earlier myths, Pandora was married to Prometheus, and cites the ancient Catalogue of Women as preserving this older tradition, and that the jar may have at one point contained only good things for mankind. He also writes that it may have been that Epimetheus and Pandora and their roles were transposed in the pre-Hesiodic myths, a "mythic inversion". He remarks that there is a curious correlation between Pandora being made out of earth in Hesiod's story, to what is in Apollodorus that Prometheus created man from water and earth. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, ed. Sir James George Frazer.) 8