Pandora’s Box and Its Significance In Greek mythology, Pandora’s box explains how the evils and hope came to Earth. Pandora had been sent by the gods to bring the box down to Earth. This would punish the humans for their misdeeds and acts of rebellion. In the myth Pandora’s interest at what the box contained lead her to make the decision of opening it. In the box where diseases, evils, and a multitude of terrible things, that Zeus the one who filled the box to punish the humans, had contained. Then the last thing that came out of the box was hope. The Greeks value hope because it helps the mythological heroes defeat their enemy’s. This is why the Greeks value hope and how it came into the Earth as well as the evils according to Greek mythology.
