Pandora's box.

Pandora's box.

Which means: that person has opened Pandora's box?

Pandora's box housed inside nothing less than all the evil that pollute the world and men but let's start at the beginning, in fact, the first principle of all.

Zeus,the supreme god, had forbidden the rest of his fellow Olympians deliver fire to men. However, Prometheus, one of the Titans (strain 12 gods who ruled the earth before Zeus and his circle), he disobeyed orders and stole fire and gave it to mortals.

Excessively vindictive, Zeus hatched a plan through which Prometheus punished for their disobedience and with it, all humanity. He ordered Hephaestus god of craftsmen and sculptors eat that shape the body of a woman in suggestive and attractive ways that would put the name of Pandora point the goddess Athena dressed seductively and Hermes gave him the ability to captivate and manipulate; Zeus himself was onto liven up the first woman whose job was to bring all men calamities still unknown.

Pandora was taken to the house of Prometheus andhi brother, Epimetheus Who fell love with the young girl. But Pandora was not alone carried a box (an amphora, according other versions) containing all the evils this story will seductive woman carrying an object that represents all the ills and sins of humanity not very known.Despite the repeated warnings of Prometheus to his brother so that he will never accept gifts from the gods, Epimetheus, conquered by the charms godsend, finally married Pandora.

Pandora could never stifle curiosity and opened the box, extending throughout the land the great evils which mankind punished; all but the only good hiding inside the container, hope that was forever locked in. In just few minutes eat the earth and its inhabitants were victims of fevers, diseases, videos, follies, plagues, sorrow, misery and unknown crimes for them. Even death just to men.

A true and authentic divine punishment safe now we think more before opening a box whose contents ignore. Now Understand the meaning of "open Pandora's box" because we know who was such Pandora and containing the happy box.