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[LINK: [Image:Pandora.jpg|right|thumb|300px|] NESIDORA" on a white-ground
kylix by the Tarquinia Painter, ca 460 BCE (British Museum]]
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. Each god helped create
her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered her creation as a punishment
for mankind, in retaliation for Prometheus' having stolen fire and then
giving it to humans for their use. She is most famous for carrying a jar
(pithos) (or box) containing all the world's evils. This is also thought as
the only power to kill a God for a mortal. 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.
The myth according to Hesiod: the Theogony The Pandora myth first appears
in lines 560-612 of Hesiod's (ca. 8th-7th centuries BC) epic poem, the
Theogony. After humans received the gift of fire from P
