Pandora's Box

All the evil in the world had to come from somewhere right? How about a woman! (again). As it often is in the ancient world, women get the short end of the stick when in it comes to the origins of sin (Eve), but at least we have hope. Little old hope unfortunately has to go against everything bad that ever was and ever will be ever, so I'm not sure how I like our chances. And since when has being curious in something been such a bad thing? I know that the Greeks were trying to prove a morale while still explaining the origins of the world, but "curiosity killed the human race" is a bit extreme of a moral to me. Pandora was the first woman, made out of clay, and a daughter of Zeus (the head hauncho). He sends her down to Earth to wed the brother of the titan Prometheus. Prometheus is known for giving fire to man (on a side note, I had always assumed "given fire to man" meant man and woman, but apparently if Prometheus had already done this and Pandora is the first woman, he was giving fire to a bunch of guys just roaming around, popping up like spuds out of the ground with no means of reproduction or companionship) (take that mythology). Anyway Prometheus was like our hero in this because he gave us fire when Zeus wanted us to wander around in the dark for the rest of eternity. Zeus, pretty enraged that we had a means of warmth as any god would be, decides to take it out on mankind. He gives Pandora and a box with all the bad stuff in it to Epimetheus, Prometheus's brother, and waits for nature to take it's course. The rest is history (kinda this didn't really happen).