PANDORA

SHE WAS A "GIFT"

• Pandora was given to the brother of Prometheus
• She was forged by Hephaestus and given a gift from each god

THE GODS BESTOWED UPON HER

• The gift of playing the lyre -Apollo
• The gift of playing the lyre -Apollo
• How to spin -Athene
• How to spin -Athene
• Skill of tending a garden -Demeter
• Skill of tending a garden -Demeter
• Look at without moving eyes and dance without moving her legs -Aphrodite
• Look at without moving eyes and dance without moving her legs -Aphrodite
• Pearl necklace and promise to never let her drown -Poseidon
• Pearl necklace and promise to never let her drown -Poseidon

GIFTS CONTINUED...

• The golden box that she could never open -Hermes
• Curiosity -Hera

SHE WAS GIVEN

• Pandora was given to Epimetheus and they got married

THE HAPPIEST EXCEPT FOR ONE THING

• Pandora was the happiest young bride
• But the box taunted her
• She questioned if Hermes was kidding, but she knew he was not
• She took it from her sight and hid it in a dusty store room

IT DID NOT HELP

• She still felt the urge to open it
• She took it, locked it in an oaken chest put on great shackles
• She dug a hole and placed it in there with a boulder on top

CURIOSITY DOES NOT SLEEP

• She awoke from her bed a rushed to dig up the box
• She unshackled it
• She must look upon it or she would "die"
• She took out the golden key and fitted it into the key hole

... AND OPENED THE LID

• It was a massive swarming
• Out of the box flew horrid creatures
• Small, scaly, lizard like creatures with bat wings and red eyes
• They circled her head then flew off hissing

LAST BIT OF STRENGTH

• Pandora slammed the lid shut
• She caught the last monster, foreboding
• The other monsters that had escaped where the ills of the world
• Spites, disease, old age, famine, insanity, and foul kin
• They scattered the world and wait to bring pain,sorrow and death

BUT FOREBONDING

• foreboding was trapped in the box
• If it had flown free everyone would know their misfortune
• Foreboding left hope, that's how man survived

"FOR THE CREATURE THAT PANORA SHUT INTO THE BOX WAS THE MOST

"FINALLY SHE TOOK THE BOX FROM THE TABLE AND HID IT IN A DUSTY LITTLE

"BUT EVEN AS SHE WAS TELLING HERSELF THIS, SHE KNEW IT WAS NOT SO-

A FORK IN THE ROAD

• This represents decisions in the story.
• Pandora had the decision to open or not open the box.
• A fork in the road gives the decision of which way to go.

THE ROSE

• Pandora is beautiful like a rose.
• But a rose is dangerous because it has thorns.
• Pandoras curiosity makes her dangerous.

THE RAINBOW

• The rainbow represents this the hope the humans still have.
• After a storm a rainbow gives hope, like how after the terrible creatures pounce there is hope

ITS SIGNIFICANCE

• This myth explains the reason for all the troubles in the world .
• It also explains how we are able to overcome these troubles.

NIKKI CANNON, JENNA BUTTERMORE