When Pandora opened her large storage jar, called a pithos in Greek, suffering and disease escaped into the world. Hesiod says humans had lived without these hardships before the jar was opened, though he does not say why Pandora opened it. Hope, called Elpis, was the only thing left inside because Pandora shut the lid, following Zeus’s design.
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