See also:

• PANDORA (the " All-giving ")

PANDORA (the " All-giving ")  in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, according to See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod (Theog . 570—612) the first woman . After See also:

• PROMETHEUS

Prometheus had stolen See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire from See also:

• HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

heaven and bestowed it upon mortals See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus determined to counteract this blessing . He accordingly commissioned See also:

• HEPHAESTUS

Hephaestus to See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion a woman out of See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, upon whom the gods bestowed their choicest gifts . Hephaestus gave her a human See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice, See also:

• APHRODITE

Aphrodite beauty and See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of See also:

• SEDUCTION (from Lat. seducere, to lead astray)

seduction, See also:

• HERMES
• HERMES, GEORG (1775-1831)

Hermes cunning and the See also:

• ART

art of flattery . Zeus gave her a See also:

• JAR

jar (sri0os), the so-called " See also:

• PANDORA (the " All-giving ")

Pandora's See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box " (see below), containing all kinds of misery and evil, and sent her, thus equipped, to Epimetheus, who, forgetting the warning of his See also:

• BROTHER

brother Prometheus to accept no See also:

• PRESENT

present from Zeus, made her' his wife . Pandora afterwards opened the jar, from which all manner of evils flew out over the earth (for See also:

• PARALLELS

parallels in other countries, see Frazer's See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias, ii . 320) . See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

Hope alone remained at the bottom, the lid having been shut down before she escaped . (Hesiod, W. and D . 54—105) . According to a later See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, the jar contained, not evils, but blessings, which would have been preserved for the human See also:

• RACE

race, had they not been lost through the opening of the jar out of curiosity by See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man himself (See also:

• BABRIUS

Babrius, Fab .

58) . See J . E . See also:

• HARRISON
• HARRISON, BENJAMIN
• HARRISON, FREDERIC (1831— )
• HARRISON, JOHN (1693—1776)
• HARRISON, THOMAS (16o6-166o)
• HARRISON, THOMAS ALEXANDER (1853– )
• HARRISON, WILLIAM (1534–1593)
• HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773–1841)

Harrison, " Pandora's Box," in See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal of Hellenic Studies, xx . (1900), in which the opening of the jar is explained asan aetiological myth based on the Athenian festival of the Pithoigia (See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• ANTHESTERIA

Anthesteria, q.v.), and P . See also:

• GARDNER
• GARDNER, PERCY (1846– )

Gardner, " A new Pandora See also:

• VASE
• VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)

vase " (xxi., ibid., 1901) . Pandora is only another See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the Earth goddess, who is conceived as releasing evil See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits from the lriOol, which served the purpose of a See also:

• GRAVE

grave (cf. the removal of the lapis manalis from the mundus, a circular See also:

• PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)

pit at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome supposed to be the opening to the See also:

• WORLD

world below, on three days in the See also:

• YEAR

year, whereby an opportunity of revisiting earth was afforded the dead) . See also O . Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie (1906), i . 94 .