<P> Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's Works and Days . The container mentioned in the original story was actually a large storage jar but the word was later mistranslated as "box". </P> <P> In modern times an idiom has grown from it meaning "Any source of great and unexpected troubles", or alternatively "A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse". Later depictions of the fatal container have been very varied, while some literary and artistic treatments have focused more on the contents of the idiomatic box than on Pandora herself . There is also an alternative tradition in which the divine gift of a jar was opened by a curious male . </P> <P> According to Hesiod, when Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus, the king of the gods, took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus . Pandora opened a jar left in his care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world . Though she hastened to close the container, only one thing was left behind--usually translated as Hope, though it could also have the pessimistic meaning of "deceptive expectation". </P> <P> From this story has grown the idiom "to open (a) Pandora's box", meaning to do or start something that will cause many unforeseen problems . Its modern, more colloquial equivalent is "to open a can of worms". </P>

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