缁忓吀鑻辫甯岃厞绁炶瘽鏁呬簨
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Pandora after the stealing of fire
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zeus became
increasingly unkind to men.one day he ordered his son
hephaestus tobuild an image of a beautiful maiden out of
clay.he then asked the gods and goddesses to award her with
different kinds of gifts.among others
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athena clothed her in
an attractive
coat and hermes gave her the power of telling lies.a
charming young lady
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she was the first woman that ever
lived.zeus called her pandora.because she had received from
each of the gods and goddesses a gift.the gift was harmful to
men. zeus decided to send her down to men as a present.so
hermes them essenger brought her to epimetheus
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brother of
prometheus.the greatness of her beauty touched the hearts of
all who looked upon her
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and epimetheus happily received her
into his house.he had quite forgotten pometheus'warning
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never to accept anything from zeus.the couple lived a happy
life for some time.then trouble came on to the human world.
when he was busy with teaching men the art of living
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prometheus had left a bigcask in the care of epimetheus.he
had warned his brother not to open the lid.pandora was a
curious woman.she had been feeling very disappointed that her
husband did not allow her to take a look at the contents of
the cask.one day
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when epimetheus was out
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she lifted the