John William Waterhouse 兩張好奇貓咪開盒盒的故事.......

                                                                                     
     希臘神話中，普羅米修斯 (Prometheus, 他的名字為的意思意為forethought，即有先見之明），卻選擇留在地上，按照神的形象用泥和水創造出人類 (MEN只有男人) ，後來祂偷天火給人間惹來宙斯暴怒，除了懲罰Prometheus也讓災難也降臨到他所造的男人。

宙斯為抵消火給人類帶來的巨大好處， 宙斯決定除了懲罰Prometheus也讓災難也降臨到他所造的男人。便令火與冶金和工藝之神 赫菲斯托斯(Hephaestus, 即羅馬的火神Vulcan，火山一字之由來)仿照Venus的樣子打造出第一個女性，為塑造她成為男士們『天上掉下來的禮物』，喚出眾神贈予她致命的特質。

潘朵拉 則是奉宙斯(Zeus)之命用土和水這兩種元素做出來的第一個女人，是應宙斯之命做為懲罰Prometheus偷天火的傑作。

Eva Prima Pandora  by: Jean Cousin d. ? , 1550, Late Renaissance ,
Paris, Mus嶪 du Louvre

The creation of Pandora; interior of a Cylix (470/ 460 B.C.)
http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/cgi-bin/apod

神使漢密斯(Hermes)接著加工將背信、耍賴放入她的心，將謊話功夫放入她的口中。最後宙斯給她一個帶來災禍的好奇心,賜她的名字為~潘朵拉(pan是所有，dora則是禮物的意思）。有人就因此大做文章啦：The female race that originated with Pandora 1 has been called \'deadly\'. And it is said that women live among men to their great trouble, being helpful only in wealth but not in poverty.

http://www.uncg.edu/cla/pandora.htm

This red figure volute krater, ca. 450 B.C., shows two scenes from the Pandora myth. To the left, Zeus sends Hermes off to give Pandora to Epimetheus. In addition to his regular attributes here Hermes carries a flower in his left hand, perhaps repesentative of gift-giving. To the right of this pair stands Epimetheus, who looks attentively at Pandora as she rises from the ground, with a small Eros figure above her. Because Epimetheus carries a hammer in one hand, some scholars have connected this scene with Sophocles\' (lost) satyr play called Pandora or The Hammerers. Period: Classical

Zeus將她送給Prometheus的哥哥厄庇裡透斯(Epimetheus)為妻，然後神給她一個神秘的箱子（或罈子jar）當嫁妝，但叮囑她千萬不能打開它。

http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/omw/index.htm

Pandora, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema [1881]

http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/bates/4.html

Pandora
circa 1920: A sculpture of Pandora by the English sculptor Harry Bates. According to Greek mythology Pandora was the first woman on earth, created by the god Hephaestus at the request of the god Zeus. She was endowed with charm and deceit by the gods and carried a box which she opened, releasing all the evils of the world. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Prometheus 當然早看出 Zeus不懷好意，再三警告Epimetheus千萬不可以接受 Zeus的任何禮物。但Epimetheus 是一個 stupid Titan，他的名字就是後知後覺\"afterthought\"的意思。當 Epimetheus 一看到 Pandora 當場魂都掉了，將Prometheus的警告拋諸腦後，執意娶她為妻，後來還有個女兒 Pyrra。