Zeus created Pandora as
a wife for Prometheus. He asked
Hephaestos to mold her out of clay and breathe life into her.
He gave her a beautiful box and told her to never open it.
One
day she could no longer stand it and she opened the box.
With a
terrible rushing sound, out of the box came the evils of the
world - sin, sickness, age, and death. Then one last thing
flew
out which
was hope.
By Chisholm,Jane; Miles,Lisa;& Reid, Straun
The Usborne Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
SCHOLASTIC inc. New York 1999
