what is the Pandora box??????????

Question

well if ask me i will say that every think begins from god and ends to him

Answer 1

There are various versions but the two following are generally acceptable:

In Greek mythology, Pandora ("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 evils of mankind—greed, vanity, slander, envy, pining—leaving only hope inside once she had closed it again.
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.

Another version. . . . .

According to Edith Hamilton in Mythology the source of all misfortune was Pandora's curiosity. "The gods presented her with a box into which each had put something harmful, and forbade her ever to open it. Then they sent her to Epimetheus, who took her gladly although Prometheus had warned him never to accept anything from Zeus. He took her, and afterward when that dangerous thing, a woman, was his, he understood how good his brother's advice had been. For Pandora, like all women, was possessed of a lively curiosity. She had to know what was in the box. One day she lifted the lid­and out flew plagues innumerable, sorrow and mischief for mankind. In terror Pandora clapped the lid down, but too late. One good thing, however, was there­Hope. It was the only good the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune."

Answer 2

In Greek mythology, Pandora ("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 evils of mankind — greed, vanity, slander, envy, pining. However, at the end, she also released hope which was shown in the form of a dove.

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.

Answer 3

In Greek mythology, Pandora ("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 evils of mankind—greed, vanity, slander, envy, pining—leaving only hope inside once she had closed it again.

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.

Answer 4

It is a box this Pandora girl opened, tricked by god Zeus. Inside the box were all the sufferings and evils of the world, but also a little winged being, hope.

Answer 5

Pandora box was the box that Pandora opened unleashing all the vices unto the world . They were supposed to kept locked so humanity would not have to undergo the problems and ills of life. She was able to keep hope in the box so that a ray of optimism would always be there for us.

Answer 6

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 evils of mankind—greed, vanity, slander, envy, pining—leaving only hope inside once she had closed it again.

Answer 7

Pandora was, in Greek mythology, the first woman. After Prometheus, a fire god and divine trickster, had stolen fire from heaven and bestowed it upon mortals, Zeus, the king of the gods, determined to counteract this blessing. He accordingly commissioned Hephaestus (a god of fire and patron of craftsmen) to fashion a woman out of earth, upon whom the gods bestowed their choicest gifts. She had or found a jar--the so-called Pandora's box--containing all manner of misery and evil. Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, who forgot the warning of his brother Prometheus and made her his wife. Pandora afterward opened the jar, from which the evils flew out over the earth. According to another version, Hope alone remained inside, the lid having been shut down before she could escape. In a later story the jar contained not evils but blessings, which would have been preserved for the human race had they not been lost through the opening of the jar out of curiosity by man himself.

Answer 8

Wow, Randy, love your answer! It's so complete that I have nothing else to contribute here, except this humble offering. The phrase, "We may have opened Pandora's Box", has been applied to situations like, say,: new research on animal cloning, nuclear bomb testing, etc. Which may, or may not, lead to new hope for the human race. I leave the answer entirely up to you.

Answer 9

what the rest has said is correct though i know that Hope was the only thing left in the box..
it seems i've been living in a world full of lies, lol :P