"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".

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."

this is where the term pandora's box comes from.


curious how history repeats itself. when the mutiny of the bounty took place and captain bligh made it back to england after he and his loyal crew made their heroic and historic voyage in an open boat,the admiralty dispatched the pandora to tahiti to round up the mutineers. the ones they rounded up an tahiti the placed in a makeshift prison box they constructed on the deck of the pandora "pandora's box". searching the nearby islands for christianson and the other mutineers they struck a reef and were sunk. as the crew abandoned the pandora,one thoughfully released the catch on the prison therby releasing the contents of the box,the" evil mutineers".-----------interesting