2007-02-27 09:46:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
zues didnt give it to her, he just ordered it made. hermes delivered it to her.
2007-02-27 14:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by Booter 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Greek mythology, Pandora 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.
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,[1] 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.
2007-02-27 18:38:12 · answer #2 · answered by ccourtne_99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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. [1] 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.
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2007-02-27 17:55:42 · answer #3 · answered by Linda 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Zeus and the pantheon of Greek gods. That was my favourite ancient myth when I was a bairn. It contained all the woes of the world and she was told never to open it ... so of course she did and let all the woes out. She slammed it shut but the damage had been done, the only thing that was left in the box was hope. We'll always have hope.
2007-02-27 17:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Zeus
2007-02-27 20:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by sunflowerdaisy94 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some bloke who ten minutes later tried to fill her box!
2007-02-27 18:03:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't she make it to theaten the society, and it ended up in the wrong hands?
2007-02-27 19:49:00 · answer #7 · answered by Jenna L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe Zeus gave it to her.
2007-02-27 17:54:30 · answer #8 · answered by the.journey.is.the.reward. C.P. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know, but I have been in it a few times
2007-02-27 18:07:22 · answer #9 · answered by Patrick the Carpathian, CaFO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know, but what ever you do ,do not open it.
2007-02-27 18:05:17 · answer #10 · answered by Aonarach 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋