Pandora Research Paper

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In the hand of several God and Goddess the first mortal woman was born, first created from clay by Hephaestus. Lights pierced through the darkness of Pandora as life was breathed into her by Athene. The God and Goddess appear before her very eyes, one with a beard and distorted face, one with a golden helmet and long hair, one with boundless beauty, and lastly one with a winged helmet. Pandora wonder who was those people next to her were, “My name Zeus and we are God, the ruler of the universe, hereby stand you to punish that ignorant fool and feel my wrath, but first we had to make you beautiful” spoke the Zeus. Suddenly spark of light embedded Pandora and when it stop, “Oh, what beauty” exclaimed Zeus to find beautiful women in emerging from …show more content…
“Let us begin the next step Hermes, in order to make this woman charming and deceitful,” told Zeus as he spoke to the person with the winged helmet. Later lesson to make women charming and deceitful were held and at the finish of the lesson she felt as if she was reborn. “Now is the time to punish those ignorant fools” exclaimed Zeus. Zeus teleported himself and Pandora to Earth which is Pandora first time and most of her time was lesson held at the home of the God and Goddess, Mount Olympus, was what they called it. Furthermore, the scenes on Earth is the least compared to the magnificent sight of the heaven of Mount Olympus where the golden sky stretched across the heaven. At last appear before Pandora the destined-to-be husband called Epimetheus by the God and was the one of the people who angered Zeus. With the order of Zeus, Pandora was ordered to charm Epimethius with her beauty to make Epimethius accept Pandora as the gift from Zeus, “Hello Epimethius and here by my side is Pandora, a gift of my to you” spoke

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