When was pandoras box first told?
Ok, firstly in the original scripts that mention Pandora called it a “jar” not a box. Through many centuries it has become a box, though of course it means the same thing. Hesiod wrote “Theogeny” and “Works and Days” where he mentions the Five Ages of Man and Pandora’s story is told amongst those ages. He lived around 700 BCE and his works were the first written mention of Pandora. Although there is no definitive proof, I am sure it was told long before in oral tradition. Summary – Zeus was the chief of the gods, in charge of earth and man. Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to men. Zeus was so angry that he decided to punish the man for his temerity. So he ordered Hephaestus to create a woman out of clay with the gods and goddesses of Olympus contributing to her completion: – Athena taught her needlework and weaving – Aphrodite “shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs” – Hermes gave her “a shameful mind and deceitful nature” – Hermes also
