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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 ...
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.
Earth Spirit (Erdgeist) (1895) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind.It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays; the second is Pandora's Box (1904), both depicting a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". [1]
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Online music maven Pandora Media (NYS: P) reports fourth-quarter results on Tuesday. Share prices have fallen more than 20% since last year's IPO, though Pandora is singing a different tune in ...
For the past few days, Vampire Wars players have been freely gifting each other a peculiar item, Ambrosia, with promise from Zynga that the reason for it would be revealed soon. Finally, we have ...
Cynics will rightfully argue that Pandora is still Shares of the music-discovery website have climbed in each of the past seven trading days, gaining a whopping 46% in that time. Pandora Learns to Box