Comparison Between Hesiod's 'Works And Days'

When Pandora was married her and her husband received a gift from the gods. The gift was a box that could never be opened. Pandora was very curious and couldn't resist the urge to open the box. She opened it and evil spirits were let out into the world.

The very creation of women was set as a punishment to man because Prometheus, son of Iapetos, tried to trick Zeus into eating bones and then, with the tube of a fennel, steals fire to give to mankind. Zeus then proclaimed, "To set against the fire I shall give them an affliction in which they will all delight as they embrace their own misfortune." Out of Zeus' anger came Pandora, the first woman. Zeus ordered Hephaestus

Just as Eve was very important to the Christians, especially women, the planet of Pandora, was of grave importance to the ancient Greek, as the name was an allusion to Greek mythology. Like Eve, Pandora was the first woman, and person primarily responsible for unleashing affliction upon human beings, although in both cases the gods deserve at least some of the blame, since humankind was created by them as being curious and gave them full access to the materials that would bring them to their

The myth starts when Zeus becomes angry with Prometheus for stealing fire and giving it to man. To punish man for accepting the fire “Zeus created a woman named Pandora” (“The Story of Pandora’s Box”). Zeus created her out of clay, and sent her to Epimetheus for him to fall in love with and marry. As a wedding gift Zeus gave Pandora a Box, and told her that she should never opened it. Pandora tried to get Epimetheus to open the box with the key that was attached to the box.

Darius, kings of Persia, made an inscription on the wall of a cliff, written in three different languages, talking about Darius himself and how he ruled as a king and the battles that he fought through. Throughout the entire inscription, Darius mentions Ahuramazda many times, because he is thanking Ahuramazda for his success throughout all his battles and life. Another inscription found, which is supposedly written by Xerses, is very similar to Darius's inscription. Xerses talks about his physical strengths, but thanks Ahuramazda for giving them to him.

Prometheus is given a (possibly) eternal torment, to be chained to a column and have his liver torn out daily. His brother Epimetheus is given what we may infer is punishment of comparable magnitude: the first woman. In the Works and Days, we learn she is called Pandora, "The Gift of All." This gift comes with many alluring qualities: she looks "like a goddess immortal, having the lovely shape of a virgin," she is taught by Athena weaving, and Aphrodite has"shed on her charm, …mak[ing] her an object of painful love and exhausting desire" (Theogony, 62-66). She is dressed by Athena in a "silver-white gown (575) and adorned by the Graces and "our Lady Persuasion" with golden necklaces, and crowned by Horai with flowers, as well as an intricately crafted golden crown, which, while a "marvel to look at," depicts "terrible monsters." And if these charms aren’t enough to lure a man into the clutches of woman, men who do not marry and have progeny are doomed to "baneful old age with no one to care for his needs,"(604-5) and his collateral heirs will divide his goods.

She tried to keep her curiosity of what was in the box away but her curiosity was too much and she opened the box and all the evils inside the box flew out and hope was trapped inside. I think a main theme of the myth is sometimes curiosity is dangerous. Curiosity can be dangerous because she was told not to open the box and still did and let out all the misfortunes out. Another theme of Pandora’s box is to not accept gifts from your opponents to easily because they cant be any good for you. The Symbol of Pandora’s box is gift from Zeus but it is used as a tool for his revenge.

After Prometheus' theft of the secret fire, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create the woman Pandora as part of the punishment for man kind. Prometheus had warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus, but he did not listen, and married Pandora. Pandora had been given a large box and had been told not to open it by Zeus. But Pandora was given the gift of curiosity and decided to open it, which released all of the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labor mankind had not previously experienced. Pandora did not act out of malice when opening the box but only testing her curiosity, when she saw what had came out the box she quickly closed it.

The myth goes that Zeus had Hephaestus create Pandora from earth and water so that he could use her to punish Prometheus after he stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. Before her departure, the Olympians showered her with a range of divine gifts from beautiful silvery robes, to

The theme of the story can always relate to the conflict in many ways. Pandora was the first goddess that was made from clay by the Gods as an order from Zeus. Prometheus’ was ordered to create the race of men. He then grew in desperation and envy as he realized the mean lot that were imposed to them by the gods so he finally stole fire from heaven, and as a punishment Zeus commanded him to create the first woman, Pandora that was made with much beauty. Among other gods, Hephaestus and many more created Pandora. Zeus then had her delivered to Prometheus' foolish younger brother Epimetheus as a beautiful and loving bride. As a wedding gift, Zeus gave Pandora a storage box that strangely, had captured evil spirits that would do much harm if

Wrigley opens his piece describing the Greek mythology story of Pandora’s Box. It is described that Pandora was created as the ideal “personification of beauty”. Pandora was used or created by Zeus to lure in Prometheus as punishment. However, unable to do so Pandora lures in his brother Epimetheus. In this, Epimetheus is unaware that he must open her box or “jar” and once he does he unleashes mass evil unseen to the world.

In Pandora the author promotes the tone of curiosity. As the story begins, the tone is shown by describing Pandora’s personality. As the story continues the author says: the first thing that Pandora saw when she entered the cottage, was a great box. And almost the first question she asked was about the box (1). Throughout the story continues the author says: “where can it have come from?” she continually asked herself, “and what on earth can be inside it?”(1). Throughout the story the author says: “you might open the box” Pandora said, “and then we could see its contents ourselves”(1). At the end of the story the author says: there was a gentle knock on the lid of the box, “what can that be?” cried Pandora, “who are you?” asked Pandora, “who

Who? Hesiod was a Greek poet of the 700 BC time frame. Many refer to him as the first writing poet of the western civilization.

This morning, we had some horrifying news that a young girl released many terrifying evils into the world. This girl was extremely curious yet beautiful and her name was Pandora. We had a short interview with Zeus about this situation and he stated, “I made Pandora as a punishment to the humans, Prometheus, and Epimetheus for not respecting the gods.” It all started when Zeus decided to give Pandora as a gift to Epimetheus. As a wedding present, he sent Pandora a box, but he warned her never to open the box. We sat down with Pandora and she exclaimed, “I just had to open it and I just needed to know what was in the box!” Pandora was falling right into Zeus trap because he knew her curiosity was going to get the best of her. Pandora glared at

In order to punish mankind, Zeus, the king of gods, ordered every god to help make the first woman, named Pandora. Hephaestus created the body of Pandora; Athene taught her how to weave; Aphrodite taught her how to act properly around men, and the list continues throughout the twelve major gods until Zeus gave life to her. Pandora was given to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother, as an apologetic gift from Zeus to let him know that there was no hard feelings because of what happened to his brother. With her new husband, Pandora was quite delighted spending time with him. When Pandora was given to Epimetheus, she was given a box that she was not to be open. Hera’s gift to Pandora was the gift of curiosity that continuously teased her about the