Pandora

Pandora (i.e. the 'all-endowed'), according to Greek myth, was the first woman on the earth. When Prometheus had stolen fire from heaven Zeus instigated Hephaestus to make woman out of earth to bring vexation upon man by her graces. The gods endowed her with every gift necessary for this purpose, beauty, boldness, cunning, &c.; and Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus, who forgot his brother's warning against accepting any gift from Zeus. A later form of the myth represents Pandora as possessing a vessel or box filled with every form of human ills, on opening which they all spread over the earth, Hope alone remaining. A still later version makes the box filled with winged blessings, which mankind would have continued to enjoy if curiosity had not prompted Pandora to open it, when all the blessings flew out, except Hope.