Greek myths

Pandora

Pandora: The first woman, a sentence to mankind:
When Prometheus stole fire from the heavens and gave it back to men, angry Zeus was determined to punish mankind for receiving this stolen gift. And his punishment had to be a beautiful and enchanting one, but so deceitful that men would welcome it as gift. It was a woman, the first woman.
According to the myth, Zeus commanded Hephaestus to create Pandora, a beautiful but wicked woman whose children would torment the race of men. After Hephaestus molded her from clay and fire, Athena clothed her in a silver gown and every Olympian god offered her a unique gift. Athena taught her needle craft and weaving, Aphrodite shed grace upon her head but Hermes gift was different… Hermes gave her cunningness and treachery. He gave her the power of speech: putting in her "lies and crafty words" He was also the one who named her “Pandora”, the all-gifted.
He then sent her to Epimetheus to be his wife. Prometheus, his bother warned him not to accept any gifts from Zeus, but he ignored the warnings. Zeus also offered Pandora a sealed box and he demanded she did not open it for any reason. Of course Pandora could not overcome her curiosity to find out what lies inside the box. Not after Zeus’s “warning”… When she opened the box, toil, sickness and diseases and myriad other pains were spread across the earth and the sea. Pandora closed the box in-time only to keep one thing contained, hope.