Pandora
Also known as Anesidora
thumb|Pandora by John William Waterhouse, 1896
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15 sectionsContents
- Hesiod
- ''Theogony''
- ''Works and Days''
- Post Hesiod
- ''Pithos'' into "box"
- Difficulties of interpretation
- Artistic representations
- Pandora's relationship to Eve
- Between Eve and Pygmalion
- 19th century drama
- Pandora in character
- Notes
- Citations
- General and cited references
- External links
thumb|Pandora by John William Waterhouse, 1896
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. As Hesiod related it, each god cooperated by giving her unique gifts. Her other name—inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum—is Anesidora.