In Hesiod’s Theogony, what is Pandora called when she first appears?

In Hesiod’s Theogony, Pandora is described as a beautiful evil sent to humanity.

The wording belongs to a compressed passage about Zeus’s punishment after Prometheus gives fire to humans. Unlike the longer narrative in Works and Days, the Theogony does not develop every stage of Pandora’s creation or tell the jar-opening episode in detail. It presents her as a harmful gift whose attractiveness conceals her destructive consequence.

This phrase is easy to confuse with later descriptions of Pandora as “all-gifted,” which is her name’s usual meaning. The two ideas work together in Hesiod: the gods furnish her with qualities, while Zeus’s larger purpose makes her arrival a calamity for humankind.

Translations vary in exact wording, including “beautiful evil” and “evil for beautiful,” because ancient Greek syntax permits different interpretive choices. The underlying contrast remains consistent: outward beauty and inward danger.