Pandora
Zeus fashioned a maiden out of earth and water and gave her a human voice and strength.
Then the gods showered her with gifts.
Athena taught her the crafts, Aphrodite bestowed on her “charm about her head” as well as “painful yearning and consuming obsession”, whereas Hermes gave her “a bitch’s mind and a knavish nature”.
The maiden was then dressed and adorned by the gods.
As the maiden was laden with numerous gifts from the gods, she was called Pandora, literally meaning “All gift”.
Thomas Kennington
1908
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