Who was Pandora? From greek
pan = all , each ; = doron gift , is according to the greek myth , the first woman who appeared on earth.
Zeus indignant against Titan Prometheus, who had formed the first 'man of earth and water and then stole fire from the heaven to give it to mortals, he wanted to punish all men, sending their ills and woes under the guise of a gentle creature. Looking to
Hephaestus (Vulcan ) he laid out the wine to form ground and water, a figure that had a human voice and likeness, and the face of a goddess graceful.
Athena Clothing The new creature with rich robes, and made a gift of wisdom and 'skills of the housework, the Charites and the venerable Pito , the' adorned with gold jewelry, while Hours sewed for her head wreaths; Aphrodite gave her coquetry and an inordinate desire for fine clothes; Hermes made her cunning, and chaicchierina liar, and just because all the Celestial offered her something she was given the name Pandora's .
Seeing his deceptive work accomplished, Zeus sent his messenger Hermes to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus , giving the girl, but despite the Prometheus had forbidden to accept any gift by Zeus, because it could be fatal, he accepted the beautiful girl forgetting all the warnings.
With the coming on earth of Pandora, the happiness of men vanished as soon as she opened the lid of the jar that went with it, a gift from Zeus afforded it, all the evils and misfortunes flooded the world with the strength and speed of a whirlwind, with their cries of disaster did not spare even a piece of land; Pandora immediately sought to close the jar, but now all the escaped, only a little light remained in the vessel though dim was the light of Hope : , something that Zeus left the men to be able to bear the pains of life, misery, something that illuminates the moments of darkness.
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