<P> Hesiod does not say why hope (elpis) remained in the jar . </P> <P> Hesiod closes with this moral (105): "Thus it is not possible to escape the mind of Zeus ." </P> <P> Hesiod also outlines how the end of man's Golden Age, (an all - male society of immortals who were reverent to the gods, worked hard, and ate from abundant groves of fruit) was brought on by Prometheus, when he stole Fire from Mt . Olympus and gave it to mortal man, Zeus punished the technologically advanced society by creating woman . Thus, Pandora was created as the first woman and given the jar (mistranslated as' box') which releases all evils upon man . The opening of the jar serves as the beginning of the Silver Age, in which man is now subject to death, and with the introduction of woman to birth as well, giving rise to the cycle of death and rebirth . </P> <P> There is also a mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon humanity in Homer's Iliad: </P>

Who created pandora and for what purpose is she made