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Pandora

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Pan·do·ra  (pn-dôr, -dr)
n.
1. Greek Mythology The first woman, bestowed upon humankind as a punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life.
2. A satellite of Saturn.
[Greek Pandr, having all gifts : pan-, pan- + dron, gift; see d- in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.PandoraPandora - (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks


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I have stolen away from the crowd in the groves, Where the nude statues stand, and the leaves point and shiver At ivy-crowned Bacchus, the Queen of the Loves, Pandora and Psyche, struck voiceless forever.
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