Pandora was the first woman in Greek mythology and released evils from a container.
Her story appears most fully in Hesiod’s works, especially Works and Days, where Zeus orders her creation after Prometheus steals fire for humanity. The gods give Pandora gifts, making her a richly equipped figure; her name is commonly interpreted as “all-gifted.”
The familiar phrase “Pandora’s box” is a later mistranslation or adaptation. Hesiod describes a large storage jar, called a pithos in Greek, not a box. When Pandora opens it, troubles escape into the human world, while hope remains inside or is otherwise treated separately depending on the reading.
Pandora is often confused with Eve because both figures are linked in later cultural comparisons with the arrival of human suffering. They belong to different traditions and stories.