What catastrophe prompted Zeus to create Pandora in Hesiod’s myth?
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Prometheus stealing fire
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What catastrophe prompted Zeus to create Pandora in Hesiod’s myth?
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Prometheus stealing fire
In Greek mythology, who created Pandora as a woman from clay?
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Hephaestus
What Greek word names the large jar in the original Pandora story?
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Pithos
In the Greek myth of Pandora, what escaped when she opened the container?
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Evils
Which ancient Greek poet is the earliest known literary source for the Pandora myth?
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Hesiod
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In Greek mythology, who created Pandora as a woman from clay?
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In Hesiod’s Pandora story, who gave Pandora her name?
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