<P> The Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world . According to this, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box", releasing all the evils of humanity . Hesiod's interpretation of Pandora's story, which is widely considered as misogynous, went on to influence both Jewish and Christian theology and so perpetuated her bad reputation into the Renaissance . Later poets, dramatists, painters and sculptors made her their subject and over the course of five centuries contributed new insights into her motives and significance . </P> <P> Hesiod, both in his Theogony (briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest version of the Pandora story . </P> <P> The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560--612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (ca . 8th--7th centuries BC), without ever giving the woman a name . After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given . He commands Hephaestus to mold from earth the first woman, a "beautiful evil" whose descendants would torment the human race . After Hephaestus does so, Athena dresses her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil, garlands and an ornate crown of silver . This woman goes unnamed in the Theogony, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod revisited in Works and Days . When she first appears before gods and mortals, "wonder seized them" as they looked upon her . But she was "sheer guile, not to be withstood by men ." Hesiod elaborates (590--93): </P> <P> From her is the race of women and female kind: of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmates in hateful poverty, but only in wealth . </P>

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