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Joan Holub, Leslie Patricelli

Pandora’s mother tells her not to open a box. Pandora does everything but open it – touches it, leans on it, sits on it, stands on it, bounces on it – until it springs open and cupcakes come flying out. Pandora apologizes and hopes her mother stills loves her. She does.There is an explanation at the end of the book about Prometheus stealing fire from Olympus and being punished for it along with the people of earth.(...)

literary

YEAR: 2014

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Hope Pandora Pandora’s Box

Constance M. Burge, Brad Kern, Cameron Litvack, Jon Paré, Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent

Charmed (Series, S07E18): Little Box of Horrors

The episode begins with two female characters fighting over a box. We later learn that these are Katya, a demon, who wants to retrieve the box as a weapon, and thus ingratiate herself with a more important demon, Zankou, and Nina, the guardian of the box. The box mysteriously disappears, and Katya, who can shape shift, poses as Nina, and approaches the Charmed Ones Piper and Phoebe to help her find Pandora’s Box. The Box has turned up on the bed of college student Hope, who opens it slight(...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 2005

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Erinyes Furies Hope Pandora

S. E. Anderson

Discovering Hope: A Pandora’s Box Novel

In this tale we encounter a 15 year old modern Pandora, Pandora Katsaros, who is not a model for curiosity but a real girl. She is struggling with pains and challenges due to her parents’ sudden death. Pandora tells the story in her own voice, and states: “The meaning of my first name is ‘all-gifted and talented’, which doesn’t describe me in the slightest.” (pp. 24–25). Pandora is depressed, grieving over her parents, thinking about the boyfriend who du(...)

literary

YEAR: 2011

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Hope Pandora Pandora’s Box

Joan Holub, Dani Jones

Do Not Open! The Story of Pandora’s Box

This is a retelling of Pandora’s myth for kids as a picture book. The pronunciation of the names is also explained by breaking them to syllables. Before the story begins, at the left page containing the publication data, opposite the first page of the story, we have a short note from the author: "Dear kids, long ago, Greeks wrote stories called myths. These stories helped them to understand things that were happening in the world around them. Myths also taught lessons about right and (...)

literary

YEAR: 2014

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Epimetheus Gods Greeks Hope Pandora Pandora’s Box

Lisl Weil

Pandora’s Box

This illustrated retelling of the myth of Pandora begins by explaining that the Greeks believed in many gods, with magical powers, that the ‘myths that told about the gods and what they could do gave people reasons why the world is as it is,’ and that the story of Pandora was a myth that answered the question ‘why couldn’t everything always be wonderful for everyone?’ (4–5) It then depicts the times of the ancient gods, where ‘flowers could talk and magi(...)

literary

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Epimetheus Hope Pandora Zeus

McLean Kendree, Cari Meister

Pandora’s Vase

A retelling of the story of Pandora’s vase is accompanied by illustrations. It includes a cast of characters and glossary page of important words. It begins with a bit of background about the Olympians fighting the Titans and winning, continuing with how, after the war, Zeus had Prometheus and Epimetheus create animals and men to populate earth. Prometheus then stole fire from Olympus to keep the men warm. Zeus, in response, said that Prometheus and mankind would suffer. He then bound Prom(...)

literary

YEAR: 2012

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Epimetheus Hephaestus Hope Olympians Pandora Prometheus Titans Zeus