Hephaistos, the blacksmith and artist of the Gods’ family, modeled once in his workshop a a beautiful woman, Pandora. In fact, she was made after Aphrodite, so you can imagine how beautiful she was. Because of this, Zeus decided to give her life. As a present she got a box where all the Gods had put something inside: first, they put all the pains and, lastly, the hope.

The meaning of the box was to be a revenge for the betrayal that Prometheus committed against the Gods. Prometheus, which means “to think and then act”, had a brother named Epimetheus, which means “to act and after think”. The Gods offered Pandora as a wife to the last one -together with the box. Prometheus tried to make his brother understand that it was better to refuse any present from the Gods, but he didn’t succeed and Epimetheus married Pandora. Besides, his curiosity was too big to keep the box closed as his brother had advised him… When he opened the box, all the imaginable diseases and sicknesses went out and spread around the world. Epimetheus closed the box as fast as he could, but just the hope stayed inside. Then he gave it to his brother, who would administrate the hope from then on.