In Greek Mythology, Prometheus and Epimetheus made man out of clay; Prometheus favored and loves man more then the Olympians. This greatly angered Zeus so he devised a plan for his thirst for revenge to be quenched.
Zeus set Hephaestus the task of creating a woman. Hephaestus worked and worked and created a masterpiece. Athena, goddess of wisdom made her intelligent and taught her to weave. Aphrodite the goddess of love made her beautiful. The Hermes the god of trickery taught her to charm and deceive. Apollo the god of the sun blessed her with music.
He named the woman Pandora meaning all-gifted and sent her as a gift to Epimetheus. Epimetheus had been warned by his brother Prometheus that he should never accept gifts from Zeus because it is more likely to be a trap. Epimetheus ignored his brother's warning, fell in love with Pandora and married her. Zeus, pleased that his trap was working gave Pandora a wedding gift, a beautiful box. With the condition that was that she never to opened the box.
Pandora often wondered what was in the box but she was never left alone so she never opened it. Gradually over a while she began to wonder more and more what was in the box. She could not understand why someone would send her a box if she could not see what was in it. It got very important to find out what was hidden there.
Finally she could stand it no longer. One day when Epimetheus was out she crept up to the box. She lifted the lid to peep in but before she realized it the room was filled with terrible things like disease, despair, malice, greed, old age, death, hatred, violence, cruelty and war and all other evils. She closed the lid quickly leaving the spirit of hope inside.