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Pandora's box You may be thinking of Pandora's box (also referred to as a jar), which, in Greek mythology, contains all the ills and evils that were unleashed into the world when Pandora opened it out of curiosity. The etymology of Pandora's name provided in Works and Days is an incorrect folk etymology. Pandora properly means "all-giving" rather than "all-gifted." An alternate name for Pandora attested on a white-ground kylix (ca. 460 BC) is Anesidora, which similarly means "she who sends up gifts." The vase painting clearly depicts Hephastus and Athena putting the finishing touches on the first woman, as in the Theogony. Written above this figure (a convention in Greek vase painting) is the name Anesidora. More commonly, however, the epithet anesidora is applied to Gaea or Demeter. See Wikipedia article at "Pandora" web link, left.
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