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- Greek mythology
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- Pandora
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema's watercolour of an ambivalent Pandora, 1881 A pithos from Crete, c. 675 BC. Louvre
Pandora's box is an artefact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind. Later depictions of the story have been varied, with some literary and artistic treatments focusing more on the contents than on Pandora herself.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pandora's box” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.