By: Ariana Blanco, Julieta Arroyo and Marina Tau

Zeus was very angry with the people who were so placed with the gift of the fire from Prometheus. He decided to punish them.

He asked to other gods to help him make a special woman .When they had finished ,she was very beautiful; she was bright and clever,and could play lovely music. Zeus called her Pandora.

Then Zeus sent for Epimetheus.”Here is a wife for you , Epimetheus,” he said.”She is a reward for making all the animals on the Earth”. Zeus gave Pandora and Epimetheus a box wich was bound an locked.”Take his box and keep it safe.I must warm you “,said Zeus , “ that you must never open it.”

Epimetheus thanked Zeus and gazed at Pandora.She was so beautiful that he forgot that his brother ,Prometheus had warned him never to accept gifts from the other gods. He took Pandora away and soon they were married.He put the box in a dark corner of his house.

Pandora was very happy with his new husband. The world was a wonderful place to live in. No one was ever ill or grew old.

No one was ever unkind or unpleased. But Pandora was curios about the locked box and the more she thought about it , the more she wanted to know what was in it . Could it be jewels or some others precious things?

“Let´s just have a little peek inside”,she said to Epimetheus, smiling sweetly at him. “No Zeus warmed us never to open it” answered Epimetheus, frowning . He wanted to do everything he could to please his wife but he was scared of Zeus .Day after day Pandora begged Epimetheus to open the box and everyday he refused.

One morning, when Epimetheus had gone out, Pandora crept into the room and started at the box for a while. Then she made up her mind.She would open it.

She broke of the lock with a tool.Then,hardly daring to breathe,she slowly lifted the lid. Before she could look inside,there was a terrible screaming, wailing noise. She jumped back, terrified. Out of the box steamed all sorts of horrible things.There was a hate and jealousy, cruelty and anger, hunger and poverty,pain and sickness,old age and death.

Pandora tried to slam down the lid but it was too late.Then one last thing, very small and pretty , fluttered out of the box. It was hope.

People would now suffer all kinds of terrible things, but because they had hope, they would never despair.