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Pandora's box
Pandora's box
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora's creation around line 60 of Hesiod's Works and Days. The "box" was actually a large jar given to Pandora , which contained all the evils of the world. When Pandora opened the jar, all its contents except for one item...

refers to the container jar (pithos) opened by the Greek mythological woman Pandora
Pandora
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts...

 releasing all the evils of mankind into the world.

It may also refer to:

In theatre, films and television

  • Pandora's Box (play)
    Pandora's Box (play)
    Pandora's Box is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays , both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed".G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version , which was loosely based on the play, in 1929...

    , a 1904 German play (Die Büchse der Pandora) by Frank Wedekind
  • Pandora's Box (film)
    Pandora's Box (film)
    Pandora's Box is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora . Directed by Austrian filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the film stars Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer...

    , a 1929 film by G. W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks
  • Pandora's Box (2008 film)
    Pandora's Box (2008 film)
    Pandora's Box is an award-winning 2008 Turkish drama film directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu.- Plot :Two sisters and a brother living in the centre of Istanbul are confronted with the care for their dementing mother who they brought back with them from the mountains near the...

    , an award-winning Turkish drama directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
  • Pandora's Box (television documentary series), a 1992 documentary series by Adam Curtis
  • "Pandora's Box", two-episodes story of the Mighty Max cartoon TV series
  • Trois 2: Pandora's Box, a 2002 film about adultery and deceit starring Monica Calhoun
  • Pandora Spocks, a spin on the phrase "Pandora's box", and the pseudonym of Samantha's cousin Serena on the TV show Bewitched

"Little Box Of Evil" (pandora's Box),a 2005 episode of the show "Charmed"

In music

  • Pandora's Box (album)
    Pandora's Box (album)
    -Disc two:-Disc three:-Recording locations:*Back in the Saddle- Recorded at the Wherehouse, Waltham, Mass. & Record Plant Studios, NYC, Feb-March 1976*Cheese Cake- Recorded at Media Sound and Record Plant Studios, NYC, May-Aug., 1979...

    , a compilation album by the band Aerosmith
  • Pandora's Box (band)
    Pandora's Box (band)
    Pandora's Box was a female pop music group assembled by Jim Steinman in the 1980s. Some of its members had previously worked with Steinman, in the ensemble Fire Inc., on the album Bat Out of Hell, on live shows and on other studio recordings...

    , a musical group created by Jim Steinman
  • "Pandora's Box", a musical group based in Perth, Western Australia, playing popular Rock and Roll Music in the local entertainment scene.
  • "Pandora's Box" (OMD song)
    Pandora's Box (OMD song)
    "Pandora's Box", subtitled "It's a Long, Long, Way" for the US release, was the second single released by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from the album Sugar Tax. The song was inspired by silent film actress Louise Brooks and is named after the 1928 film Pandora's Box she starred in...

    , a single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from the album Sugar Tax
  • "Pandora's Box" (Procol Harum song)
    Pandora's Box (Procol Harum song)
    Pandora's Box is a song written by pianist Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid. It was recorded by their band, Procol Harum in 1975 as part of the album Procol's Ninth. This single was the last hit Procol Harum were to have before disbanding in 1977....

    , Procol Harum's last Top 20 UK single, also the lead track off of their album Procol's Ninth.
  • "Pandora's Box", a song from Aerosmith's 1974 album Get Your Wings
    Get Your Wings
    -Side two:-Song information:Same Old Song and Dance*Built around a riff Joe Perry came up with while sitting on his amp, Steven Tyler quickly came up with the verse riff. The song appears in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock...

  • "Pandora's Box", a song from Donna Summer's 1975 album Love to Love You Baby
    Love to Love You Baby
    Love to Love You Baby is the second album by Donna Summer, and her first to be released internationally and in the US. Her previous album Lady of the Night was released only in the Netherlands. Love to Love You Baby was released in the US on August 27, 1975.-History:In the summer of 1975, Summer...


Other

  • Pandora's Box (BDSM)
    Pandora's Box (BDSM)
    Pandora's Box is a professional domination BDSM studio in New York City. It has been the subject of the documentary Fetishes by Nick Broomfield, and a book by the photographic journalist Susan Meiselas, as well as the subject of numerous magazine and newspaper articles.Its premises are a large...

    , a studio in New York made famous by Nick Broomfield's documentary Fetishes
  • Pandora's Box, Prison cell built on deck of HMS Pandora to hold captured mutineers from HMS Bounty
    HMS Bounty
    HMS Bounty , famous as the scene of the Mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, was originally a three-masted cargo ship, the Bethia, purchased by the British Admiralty, then modified and commissioned as His Majesty's Armed Vessel the...

    .
  • Pandora Box (company), a Japanese video game developer
  • Pandora's Box (video game)
    Pandora's Box (video game)
    Pandora's Box is a 1999 video game created by the designer of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, for Microsoft.In the game, players must travel around the world to different cities solving various kinds of puzzles to capture the seven "tricksters" - Maui, Puck, Eris, Coyote, Monkey, Anansi and Raven. Each...

    , a computer game created by Microsoft
  • Pandora's Box, Gunn High School
    Gunn High School
    Henry M. Gunn High School is one of two public high schools in Palo Alto, California. Gunn High School is a four-year high school with a current enrollment of just over 1,900 students. The Class of 1966 was the first class to graduate from Gunn High School. The academic year has two semesters with...

    's creative arts magazine
  • Pandora's Box, a gamemaster's tool for Ultima Online
    Ultima Online
    Ultima Online is a graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game , released on September 24, 1997, by Origin Systems. It was instrumental to the development of the genre, and is still running today...

  • Pandora's Box, a wrapper application for Pandora (music service)
    Pandora (music service)
    Pandora Radio is an automated music recommendation service and custodian of the Music Genome Project available only in the United States. The service plays musical selections similar to song suggestions entered by a user...

  • Professor Layton and Pandora's Box
    Professor Layton and Pandora's Box
    , known in Australia and Europe as Professor Layton and Pandora's Box, is the second game in the Professor Layton series by Level-5. It was followed by a third game, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future...

    , the second game in the Professor Layton series
  • Pandora Boxx
    Pandora Boxx
    Pandora Boxx is an American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality from Rochester, New York. He is best known as a contestant from the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race...

    , Drag Queen, Contestant from RuPaul's Drag Race
    RuPaul's Drag Race
    RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality television series produced by World of Wonder for Logo. RuPaul plays host, mentor and inspiration for this series, which details RuPaul's search for "America's next drag superstar."...

     and Professor from RuPaul's Drag U
    RuPaul's Drag U
    RuPaul's Drag U is an American reality television series. Hosted by RuPaul and a team of drag queen "professors," Drag U is a spin-off of the series RuPaul's Drag Race...

  • Pandora's Box, rock and roll nightclub on the Sunset Strip
    Sunset Strip
    The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile-and-a-half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with Hollywood at Harper Avenue, to its western border with Beverly Hills at Sierra Drive...

     in West Hollywood, California
    West Hollywood, California
    West Hollywood, a city of Los Angeles County, California, was incorporated on November 29, 1984, with a population of 34,399 at the 2010 census. 41% of the city's population is made up of gay men according to a 2002 demographic analysis by Sara Kocher Consulting for the City of West Hollywood...

    , demolished in 1966
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