That's from ancient Crete about 625 BC.
Pandora’s Box | Reason and Meaning
Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s water-color of an ambivalent Pandora, 1881 In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created by the gods. Zeus ordered her to be molded out of the earth as …
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Jun 29, 2020 · The Pandora myth is a theodicy—an attempt to explain why evil exists in the world. (The idiom “to open a Pandora’s box”, means to do or start something that will cause many unforeseen problems.) The key question is how to interpret the myth. Is the imprisonment of hope inside the jar a benefit for humanity, or a further bane?