Each of the gods gave her something, Apollo taught her to sing, Athene to spin, Demeter to tend to a garden, Aphrodite to look at a man without moving her eyes, and to dance without moving her legs, Poseidon a pearl necklace, and promised she would never drown. Hermes gave her a small box, and told her to never open it, and Hera gave her curiosity. These two contradict themselves, but Pandora thought that Hermes was testing her, and she buried the box, but she gave in and buried it back up and decided to open it, when she opened it, many small scaly creatures escaped, these gave man spite, and thousands of diseases, frightened, she closed the box and captured the last creature, this creature would have given man exactly everything bad that would happen to them, this would have very quickly killed the humans, but it did not. So why did Zeus do this? Well after Prometheus, he did not want anyone to question him, so he made a human, and gave her curiosity and the box, this was an act that Zeus wanted to happen, he wanted humans to drive themselves insane, but Pandora caught the one that made them know their misfortune, and basically says that if any human wants to act against a god, great difficulty would be set upon them and their
Each of the gods gave her something, Apollo taught her to sing, Athene to spin, Demeter to tend to a garden, Aphrodite to look at a man without moving her eyes, and to dance without moving her legs, Poseidon a pearl necklace, and promised she would never drown. Hermes gave her a small box, and told her to never open it, and Hera gave her curiosity. These two contradict themselves, but Pandora thought that Hermes was testing her, and she buried the box, but she gave in and buried it back up and decided to open it, when she opened it, many small scaly creatures escaped, these gave man spite, and thousands of diseases, frightened, she closed the box and captured the last creature, this creature would have given man exactly everything bad that would happen to them, this would have very quickly killed the humans, but it did not. So why did Zeus do this? Well after Prometheus, he did not want anyone to question him, so he made a human, and gave her curiosity and the box, this was an act that Zeus wanted to happen, he wanted humans to drive themselves insane, but Pandora caught the one that made them know their misfortune, and basically says that if any human wants to act against a god, great difficulty would be set upon them and their