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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. [6] A modern, more colloquial equivalent is "to open a can of worms". [7] Pandora's box is a metaphor for something that brings about great troubles or misfortune, but also holds hope.
Pandora's Box had previously been adapted for the screen by Arzén von Cserépy in 1921 in Germany under the same title, with Asta Nielsen in the role of Lulu. [2] As there was a musical, plays and other cinema adaptations at the time, the story of Pandora's Box was well known. [2] This allowed writer-director G. W. Pabst to take liberties with ...
Elpis was the remaining item enclosed in Pandora's box (or jar), the best known form of the myth found in Hesiod’s Works and Days. [1] There Hesiod expands upon the misery inflicted on mankind through the curiosity of Pandora.
The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), 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.
"The Gorgon's Head" - recounts the story of Perseus killing Medusa at the request of the king of the island of Seriphos, Polydectes. "The Golden Touch" - recounts the story of King Midas and his "Golden Touch". "The Paradise of Children" - recounts the story of Pandora opening Pandora's box, which was filled with all of mankind's troubles.
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Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1904 play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind.It forms the second part of his pairing of Lulu plays, the first being Earth Spirit (German: Erdgeist, first printed in 1895), both of which depict a society "driven by the demands of lust and greed".