2007-12-14 14:04:29 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
as in what were all the evils inside it exactly?- i noe hope came out soo yea
2007-12-15 06:36:20 · update #1
a lot of things, like disease, despair, malice, greed, old age, death, hatred, violence, cruelty and war.
what stayed in the box however, was hope
2007-12-14 14:07:33 · answer #1 · answered by emilytstrange 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560-612 of Hesiod's epic poem, the Theogony somewhere between the 7th and 8th centuries BC.
This woman goes unnamed in the Theogony, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod would revisit in a later work of Hesiod titled the Works and Days.
In this version of the myth Hermes gives this woman a name: Pandora (All-gifted) because all the Olympians gave her a gift". In this retelling of her story, Pandora brings with her a jar containing "burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men", diseases, and "a myriad other pains".
After Pandora scatters the contents of her jar, "the earth and sea are full of evils". One item does not escape the jar- hope. Hope remained under the lip of the jar, and did not fly away before Pandora replaced the lid of the jar. This was the will of aegis-bearing Zeus the Cloudgatherer.
2007-12-14 14:24:24 · answer #2 · answered by Troasa 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Hermes persuasion, and so forth. Hence her name: Pandora, "all-gifted". When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Epimetheus, Prometheus' brother. With her, Pandora had a jar which she was not to open under any circumstance. Impelled by her natural curiosity, Pandora opened the jar, and all evil contained escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the lid, but the whole contents of the jar had escaped, except for one thing which lay at the bottom, and that was Hope.
Love & Blessings
Milly
2007-12-14 15:45:55 · answer #3 · answered by milly_1963 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pandora's Box contained all the worlds evils. And along with the evils came Hope, the worlds only salvation.
2007-12-14 14:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by imthevoiceofgod 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
At first all the evil in the world was locked up in that box, the person who opened it was curios to know what was inside, once she did all the evil of the world escaped
2007-12-14 15:30:29 · answer #5 · answered by Ali Ya Ali 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the diseases and despair in the world. Pandora closed it just in time to seal Hope inside the box.
2007-12-14 14:07:00 · answer #6 · answered by manhattanchicka 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
She released all evils, and tried closing the box but it was too late. But with the evils came hope.
2007-12-14 15:10:16 · answer #7 · answered by lilangie9584 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everything bad in the world, as these folks have said. But most importantly, the last thing to come out of the box was hope. So despite all the bad stuff there was something good - humanity got hope.
2007-12-14 14:07:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Pain, evil, sorrow, misery, ect. came out of Pandora's Box.
2007-12-14 14:11:00 · answer #9 · answered by Numnuts 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Plagues, hate,...you know, all of the bad thing for humans.... but Hope was still left there, so pandora shut it up before it gets out
2007-12-14 14:51:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
She is most famous for carrying a jar containing all the world's evils. For she brings with her a jar containing "burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men", diseases and "a myriad other pains". She releases these evils, and tries to close the lid but it is too late. Along with these evils came Hope, Humanity's only salvation.
2007-12-14 15:27:02 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋