In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, hope remains inside the jar after all the evils escape.
The detail appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days, where Pandora opens a sealed storage vessel and releases diseases, pains, and other troubles into the world. She closes it before the final contents can escape. The Greek word usually translated as “hope” is elpis.
The story does not clearly explain whether hope is trapped inside as a comfort for humanity or withheld from humanity as another hardship. That ambiguity has produced competing interpretations for centuries. Modern retellings commonly treat hope as a blessing left behind for people.
The object is often called a box in English, but Hesiod describes a pithos, a large storage jar. The phrase “Pandora’s box” became standard later through a Renaissance-era translation tradition, while “hope” remains the familiar final element of the myth.