Carte Postale Pandora par John William Waterhouse

À Greek mythology, Pandora, la première femme sur terre. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents ; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Herpersumes, and ainsi de suite. Hence, nom : Pandora, "tout-poison". When Prometheus stole fire from heaven Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Epimetheus, Prometheus' brother. Eh bien, Pandora a box which she not to open under circumstance. Vaccination par her natural curiosity, Pandora opened the box, and all evil contained escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the lid, but the whole contents of the box had escaped, except for one thing which lay at the bottom, et that the hope.