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Pandora's box
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora's creation in Hesiod's ''Works and Days''.〔Hesiod, ''Works and Days'' (47ff. ).〕 The "box" was actually a large jar (πίθος ''pithos'')〔Hesiod, ''Works and Days'' (94 ).〕 given to Pandora (Πανδώρα, "all-gifted", "all-giving"),〔Evelyn-White, note to Hesiod, ''Works and Days'' (81 ).; Schlegel and Weinfield, "Introduction to Hesiod" (p. 6 ); Meagher, (p. 148 ); Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The Pandora-Eve Motif in Rabbinic Literature", ''The Harvard Theological Review'', Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1974), (pp. 341-345 ).〕 which contained all the evils of the world. Pandora opened the jar and all the evils flew out, leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again.
Today the phrase "to open Pandora's box" means to perform an action that may seem small or innocent, but that turns out to have severely detrimental and far-reaching consequences.
==In mythology==
(詳細はZeus ordered Hephaestus to create her. So he did, using water and earth.〔Hesiod, ''Works and Days'' (61–64 ).〕 The gods endowed her with many gifts: Athena clothed her, Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo gave her musical ability, and Hermes gave her speech.〔Hesiod, ''Works and Days'' (62–82 ).〕
According to Hesiod, when Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus. Pandora opens a jar containing death and many other evils which were released into the world. She hastened to close the container, but the whole contents had escaped except for one thing that lay at the bottom – Elpis (usually translated "hope", though it could also mean "expectation").〔Hesiod, ''Works and Days'' (83–108 ); Gantz, pp 156–157.〕
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