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Pandora's Box

When Prometheus first created humans, he had only created men. Prometheus made them and Athena breathed them to life. Then one day there was a quarrel between the Olympians and men. Prometheus tried to solve this problem by sacrificing a bull for the first time at a festival. The Titan then decided to trick the gods. He butchered the bull then split it into two portions, one for men and another for the gods. One portions was made of lean meat, and they other was just bones covered with a thick layer of fat. Prometheus then offered the two portions to Zeus to decided which one should be offered to the gods. Zeus figured that the layer of fat was covering juicy meet picked that portion. When Zeus realized that he had been tricked he was furious. He took fire away from man so that they could never cook their meat or be warm again. Prometheus reacted by stealing back the fire for the human race. Zeus swore vengeance.

The leader of the gods went to Hephaestus, the god of fire, and asked him to create a clay woman with a human voice. The god of fire labored day and night over this clay woman until finally he was finished. Athena then breathed this woman to life. She clothed the woman and taught her how to weave. Aphrodite made this woman beautiful. Finally Hermes taught the woman to charm and deceive.

Zeus was delighted when he saw this woman. Then his plan for revenge had begun. Zeus named the woman Pandora and sent her as a gift to Epimetheus. Epimetheus had been warned by his brother Prometheus, not to except gifts from the gods but he ignored his brother's warning and married Pandora. At the wedding, Zeus gave Pandora a box as a gift, but he told her that she must never open it. They were very happy for a while then one day Pandora couldn't resist for she was rather curious what was in the box. While everyone was out she unlocked the box and slightly lifted the lid but before she realized what had happened disease, despair, hunger, poverty, war, sickness, death, old age, greed, violence and a few more evil things flew out of the box. She quickly closed the box leaving one thing in, hope.