In the Greek myth of Pandora, hope remained after the other contents escaped.
Hesiod’s account says that Pandora opened a container and released troubles into the human world. The exact status of hope has been debated because the Greek word elpis can mean expectation or anticipation, not only optimistic hope in the modern sense. Even so, “hope” is the standard English answer and the most familiar interpretation of the myth.
The story does not present the container as a box in Hesiod’s original wording; it refers to a large storage jar, or pithos. Later retellings and translations helped establish the phrase “Pandora’s box.” The remaining presence of hope gives the myth a deliberately ambiguous ending: humanity suffers from countless evils, but some form of expectation remains.
Readers sometimes assume that hope escaped last, but the wording and later interpretations do not create a simple universally agreed sequence. The stable point is that hope is the famous item associated with remaining inside the container.