Pandora's box it is a greek myth which narrates the arrival of the first woman on earth and with it the origin of all human tragedies. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman created by Hephaestus under Zeus' orders.
This story was told by the Greek poet Hesiod, who lived in the 8th century BC. Ç. According to the work, the titan Prometheus gifted men with fire so that they could dominate nature. Zeus, the chief of the gods of Olympus, who had forbidden the delivery of this gift to mankind, engineered his revenge by creating Pandora, the first woman. Before sending her to Earth, he gave her a box, recommending that it never be opened for inside it the gods had placed an arsenal of misfortunes for man, such as discord, war and all diseases of body and mind plus a single gift: hope.
Overcome by curiosity, Pandora ended up opening the box releasing all the evils in the world, but closed it before hope could leave. This metaphor was the way found by the Greeks to represent, in an easily understood plot, concepts related to the feminine nature, such as beauty, sensuality and the power of dissimulation and undoing.
One of several versions of this myth indicates that Pandora, a woman of extreme beauty, was sent by Zeus to marry Epimetheus, who was the brother of Prometheus. The wedding gift was a box that contained all evils, which became known as Pandora's box, once that she couldn't contain her curiosity and opened the box, releasing all the evils and misfortunes about the humanity. In this way, the gods took revenge on Prometheus for stealing fire from the gods.
Another version is that Pandora was sent by Jupiter, with good intentions, in order to please man. The king of the gods gave him, as a wedding gift, a box in which each god had placed a good. Pandora opened the box, and all the goods escaped except hope.
