The myth of Pandora’s box - Iseult Gillespie

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    Pandora was the first mortal woman, breathed into being by Hephaestus, god of fire. The gods gave her gifts of language, craftsmanship and emotion. From Zeus she received two gifts: the trait of curiosity and a heavy box screwed tightly shut -- never to be opened. But what treasure could never be seen by human eyes, and why was it in her care? Iseult Gillespie explores the mystery of Pandora’s box.
    Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Silvia Prietov.
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  • @yashaswinarayana7648
    @yashaswinarayana7648 Před 5 lety +19828

    Ted Ed has always amused and educated us in unique and fun way.Thank You team Ted Ed always appreciated your efforts.

  • @yorix5588
    @yorix5588 Před 5 lety +22891

    Zeus: Gives a box to Pandora that is not to be opened in any circumstances
    Also Zeus:Gives her extreme curiosity

    • @maggiesinthemud5638
      @maggiesinthemud5638 Před 5 lety +1695

      She was meant to open the box. It was a punishment for mankind

    • @MrJohnhackers
      @MrJohnhackers Před 5 lety +294

      So confuse other videos said hera gave the curiosity

    • @jcanims2620
      @jcanims2620 Před 5 lety +492

      Even if zeus didn't give her the curiosity why would he give her it...

    • @yorix5588
      @yorix5588 Před 5 lety +66

      Lmao CALM DOWN PEOPLE🤣🤣

    • @MrJohnhackers
      @MrJohnhackers Před 5 lety +71

      Hey Im not making an argument about the story 😁😁😁😁just pointing out about some inconsistency on some parts of the story retold by different channels that they kinda messed up history for the viewers . ✌✌✌peace yo

  • @srushtikotangale2064
    @srushtikotangale2064 Před 5 lety +5317

    Zeus is one mischievous fellow. Whenever something goes wrong in Greek mythology he always has something to do with it.

    • @noahi.1381
      @noahi.1381 Před 5 lety +357

      Zeus is the real bad guy in Greek mythology. No wonder Kronos wanted to get rid of him as soon as he was in the womb of Rhea.

    • @sandeshpatil3785
      @sandeshpatil3785 Před 5 lety +254

      he is like USA

    • @notmalk_
      @notmalk_ Před 5 lety +21

      @@sandeshpatil3785 what

    • @wazirtahfiz3087
      @wazirtahfiz3087 Před 5 lety +12

      @@sandeshpatil3785 huh

    • @laureli4645
      @laureli4645 Před 5 lety +37

      @@sandeshpatil3785 so true 😂😂

  • @m.rieee_
    @m.rieee_ Před 3 lety +4863

    That guy who were punished for giving human fire I feel sorry for him he just wanted to keep us warm 😭

    • @Fahd_93
      @Fahd_93 Před 3 lety +463

      Yes Prometheus is considered a hero to humans. Thats why Heracles(Hercules) rescued him.

    • @hishamrashid5293
      @hishamrashid5293 Před 2 lety +40

      @Bαɳαɳα Sυɳԃαҽ Hercules is no ordinary guy.

    • @jejo4911
      @jejo4911 Před 2 lety +26

      @@hishamrashid5293 a half god right?

    • @chloe6947
      @chloe6947 Před 2 lety +59

      @@jejo4911 indeed. son of Zeus and hero to mankind

    • @jejo4911
      @jejo4911 Před 2 lety +30

      @Toastie there were no electricity back then

  • @jeremyponcy7311
    @jeremyponcy7311 Před 3 lety +3027

    This video overlooked the primary point of the story. Remember she looks in the box twice. The lesson: Where some curiosity is a curse more curiosity is the cure.

    • @syrenwater3811
      @syrenwater3811 Před 3 lety +271

      People do this with a lot of things like that. for example, the saying "curiosity killed the cat" the rest of the saying is " and answers brought it back again.

    • @josephwilles29
      @josephwilles29 Před 2 lety +260

      The video omitted that Pandora was given a great deal of empathy. When she opened the box, she really felt all of the intensity of the world's shame, horror, anger, hatred, and all other dark and terrible things. She was devastated and only in the darkest hour, came the glimmer of hope. With tears in her eyes, she looked up to see ... Batman!

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před 2 lety +31

      @@josephwilles29 almost got me there.

    • @dkf315
      @dkf315 Před 2 lety +4

      @@josephwilles29 🤣🤣

    • @satwikyeedulapalli2218
      @satwikyeedulapalli2218 Před 2 lety +9

      @@josephwilles29 Ha!! The truth is finally revealed.

  • @mahirorigami
    @mahirorigami Před 5 lety +18451

    Zeus, the type of guy to laugh the loudest about his own jokes

    • @nakiwinkydim
      @nakiwinkydim Před 5 lety +234

      Mahir Cave he did do that. But he’s the strongest of all gods combined so they couldn’t really do anything about it

    • @kingcrimson3687
      @kingcrimson3687 Před 5 lety +42

      @@nakiwinkydim tell that to Typhon

    • @dzagoproductions3450
      @dzagoproductions3450 Před 5 lety +37

      @@kingcrimson3687 well Zeus did beat him. Although it took him a long time.

    • @kingcrimson3687
      @kingcrimson3687 Před 5 lety +53

      @@dzagoproductions3450 yes, but not on his own. Typhon beat zeus first, and then pan and hermes come to help him. So you see, zeus is not that all powerful

    • @dzagoproductions3450
      @dzagoproductions3450 Před 5 lety +17

      @@kingcrimson3687 they helped him so he kould get back together. Both literally and figuratively. Other then that they didn't help him.

  • @lizard_ow7145
    @lizard_ow7145 Před 4 lety +9355

    the other gods: gives pandora nice things
    Hermes: givers her a *name*
    zeus: I'm going to do what's called a pro gamer move

  • @ahmediii8587
    @ahmediii8587 Před 3 lety +1410

    Zeus gave Pandora two boxes, she opened the second one on the 1st of January of 2020 AD.

  • @hahamadeyouread214
    @hahamadeyouread214 Před 3 lety +248

    Moral of the story, don't give a cursed object to a child

  • @netnet_in_a_sweater9351
    @netnet_in_a_sweater9351 Před 4 lety +5969

    Pandora: the first unboxing youtuber

  • @fbi7568
    @fbi7568 Před 5 lety +7158

    HELLO GUYS AND WE ARE GONNA DO ANOTHER UNBOXING VIDEO TODAY

  • @aditya37mviews3weeksago3
    @aditya37mviews3weeksago3 Před 3 lety +101

    Zeus was a savage...
    He blessed her with a curious mind and then proceeded to give her a box that she should never open😂🤣

    • @vriddhi1211
      @vriddhi1211 Před 3 lety +7

      he's so annoying lmao

    • @whatzmyusrname
      @whatzmyusrname Před 2 lety +4

      That was the plan. The gods *wanted* Pandora to open the box, because the gods hate humanity and they decided to punish humanity.

    • @lemonlime07
      @lemonlime07 Před 2 lety +3

      @@whatzmyusrname new whole to this whole thing so didn't/shouldn't they have the power to just end humanity?

    • @jennic9076
      @jennic9076 Před 3 měsíci

      if I gave you a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it and told you, you must never drink it, would you be temped to?

  • @slog5560
    @slog5560 Před 3 lety +203

    so Zeus gave Pandora the trait of curiosity, and then gives her a box that she is not a loud to look in at all costs... Zeus is A very clever god.

  • @colonelcorneliuscornwall3547
    @colonelcorneliuscornwall3547 Před 3 lety +12841

    Ah, yes. Let’s give the most curious person on Earth a box they shouldn’t open. It’s a great idea!

    • @laykimtech1423
      @laykimtech1423 Před 3 lety +172

      Indeed

    • @capybaraandwatermelonenjoy8208
      @capybaraandwatermelonenjoy8208 Před 3 lety +1034

      No you dont get it. The gods WANTED her to open the box, they planned it all because they were mad at humans.

    • @layla916
      @layla916 Před 3 lety +350

      She was ment to open it they were angry at the humans

    • @jeremyponcy7311
      @jeremyponcy7311 Před 3 lety +147

      Who says she shouldn't have opened the box? The real lesson lies in her opening the box the second time.

    • @Huz7Edits
      @Huz7Edits Před 3 lety +27

      @@capybaraandwatermelonenjoy8208 You do know this is myth

  • @BangMaster96
    @BangMaster96 Před 5 lety +5463

    Inside Pandora's Box, was the Krusty Krab secret formula

    • @bridgettebaham3426
      @bridgettebaham3426 Před 5 lety +46

      (☭ ͜ʖ ☭)

    • @gato_feliz605
      @gato_feliz605 Před 5 lety +35

      Recepie:
      Airiwouroqhr
      Workwidihwisirh
      Idoahshidofoqkb
      Wndhajhdvejshd with many aishahdopqhshdi sprinkles around it
      Jwidhkwdh
      Woeooahdoajhd with a side of oahdhwodoworhud

    • @sauceaddict9569
      @sauceaddict9569 Před 5 lety +16

      Lol😂💀

    • @margetirona
      @margetirona Před 5 lety +13

      maybe a gas that gave Layton hallucinations

    • @manasvisharma8497
      @manasvisharma8497 Před 5 lety +7

      you are an aroha and a once ,well you met your match

  • @waterfall6782001
    @waterfall6782001 Před 3 lety +52

    I think that the more interesting question is why hope was in the box. Is it truly to ease the horrors she unleased, or is hope just another kind of horror keeping us from taking different actions?

    • @logos1.618
      @logos1.618 Před 2 lety +4

      Well, ελπις (elpis = hope) was in the same class of evils things in the box/jar. The question of why it wasn't released is quite an important one. You second hypothesis about hope being a kind of horror, I agree with. For hope ultimately makes one passive, there is no need to work for 'fire' or 'the arts.' Pandora's Box was a gift, humans are given problems to deal with and learn from, without hope compromising the pursuit of learning and action.

    • @haydenchan7060
      @haydenchan7060 Před rokem +3

      Why Elpis is in the box-well, it’s not just to ease the horrors she unleashed. Hope remained in the jar because hope will never abandon humans. We will always have hope even in the darkest times, even when Zeus’ mini horror army is wreaking havoc on the world. That is the true reason why Elpis remained in the box, which is actually a pithos, a jar.

    • @danieljoseph6404
      @danieljoseph6404 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@logos1.618 No, hope drives people into action, to overcome the evils of the world and fight for a better future. No one will fight for or attempt things knowing that it won't succeed in the end (absence of hope).

  • @segnos
    @segnos Před rokem +23

    Never heard this version of the story it’s so fascinating how ancient stories like this have so many different iterations that you could always be surprised when you hear a story like this because the variation of the story that the person telling know is so different from the one you know

  • @Ponderish
    @Ponderish Před 5 lety +6117

    Can Zeus just like, not give the box to her

    • @Vee-yr6vm
      @Vee-yr6vm Před 5 lety +449

      Zeus always meant for her to open the box. She was a living Trojan Horse for humanity, so to speak.

    • @yoshii6434
      @yoshii6434 Před 5 lety +9

      EeviumZ 😑

    • @stza16
      @stza16 Před 5 lety +9

      EeviumZ- You are right.

    • @bantober
      @bantober Před 5 lety +11

      EeviumZ it’s like they didn’t watch the video

    • @josuke6869
      @josuke6869 Před 5 lety +54

      @@bantober where in the video does it state that zeus meant for her to open the box? And if so, why did he just not open the box himself if he wanted it open...

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.0 Před 5 lety +5144

    *Plot Twist:* Inside the Pandora's Box, there is a photo of Spongebob's embarrassing moments at the Christmas party.

  • @violetbaudelaire9604
    @violetbaudelaire9604 Před 2 lety +88

    This is a wonderful story - reminding us that, although bad things are happening around us, there is still beauty left in the world. Keep it up, TED ED!!

    • @visceraeyes525
      @visceraeyes525 Před rokem +2

      "in reality hope is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torment of man" -nietzsche

    • @ValerioRhys
      @ValerioRhys Před rokem

      @@visceraeyes525 torment is fleeting, suffering is transient

  • @Alkotra
    @Alkotra Před 3 lety +23

    *"Or are there mysteries that are better left unsolved?"*
    Thanks. Now I can't sleep

  • @bellevalentine8067
    @bellevalentine8067 Před 5 lety +3217

    Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back

  • @hi-gm3tx
    @hi-gm3tx Před 5 lety +3942

    Zeus:*gives curiosity*
    Zeus:*gives a box not to open*
    BOI

  • @ranjinijaikumar7212
    @ranjinijaikumar7212 Před 3 lety +11

    3:00
    TED-Ed's so good, that even their scribbles are perfect.

  • @stop7475
    @stop7475 Před 2 lety +17

    3:52 *oh no..*

  • @riatortilla9906
    @riatortilla9906 Před 4 lety +4062

    All the other gods: **gives pandora great gifts**
    Hermes: yeah, i’mma just give her a name-

    • @daffadaffa8076
      @daffadaffa8076 Před 4 lety +289

      Hermes also gave her the mastery over language.

    • @tofu6190
      @tofu6190 Před 3 lety +36

      In what I read hermes gave her curiosity and zeus gave her a name. :///

    • @michaelroditis1952
      @michaelroditis1952 Před 3 lety +63

      @@tofu6190 I am from Greece and I have noticed that most of the stories that originate from Greek mythology differ from what I have learned. But I guess there are many interpretations of the same stories.

    • @heartsxx3150
      @heartsxx3150 Před 3 lety +5

      sounds like what i would do-

    • @GermanAnimeStriker
      @GermanAnimeStriker Před 3 lety +47

      Im just baffled how many people can not listen properly... Hermes gave not only the name to pandora but also the mastery of all languages. And the fact that you got so many likes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! people just listen better please!

  • @jembothegreat
    @jembothegreat Před 3 lety +46

    Zeus is the type of guy who do pranks and he'll never regret it.

  • @4AMReflections
    @4AMReflections Před rokem +10

    j-hope, you're legend my guy.

  • @zongivila
    @zongivila Před 5 lety +2203

    Zeus: "It's just a prank bro"
    Edit: Thanks for the likes :D

  • @Romaoplays
    @Romaoplays Před 5 lety +1632

    >gives curisity
    >gives box not to be opened without tellling what’s in it
    >???

    • @abouttime837
      @abouttime837 Před 5 lety +357

      Greek gods really are just major assholes

    • @stabloona468
      @stabloona468 Před 5 lety +1

      😂

    • @agathafry4233
      @agathafry4233 Před 5 lety +84

      A T So is the Abrahamic God. Eve was also given curiosity and told not to eat from one particular tree in the garden. Zoinks!

    • @janewright315
      @janewright315 Před 5 lety +20

      @@agathafry4233 plagiarism

    • @agathafry4233
      @agathafry4233 Před 5 lety +23

      janewright315 Not plagiarism. Just repeating themes born of human psyche.

  • @burntpt9816
    @burntpt9816 Před 3 lety +9

    This channel expands my brain everyday and I’m grateful it helped me win a quiz in school

  • @inastasia4871
    @inastasia4871 Před rokem +13

    I must have streamed Pandora's Box way too much for youtube to suggest this video

  • @yatint9665
    @yatint9665 Před 5 lety +7208

    I know this is a legend... But what did Zues expect would happen if he gave the gifts of extreme curiosity and a box not to be opened... I mean come on bruh!

    • @beestrick8218
      @beestrick8218 Před 5 lety +918

      Thats actually his point, she was given to mankind as punishment to man for accepting fire from Prometheus. Overly Sarcastic Productions has a great version of this that goes more into it :)

    • @skurvay3429
      @skurvay3429 Před 5 lety +563

      Sounds a lot like how God told Adam & Eve to not eat apples from the tree of knowledge but had a serpent that convinced them to eat the apples, coincidence or are we missing something here?

    • @noodles1291
      @noodles1291 Před 5 lety +53

      skurvay I think there’s probably some influence in there

    • @arkhadipustaka_
      @arkhadipustaka_ Před 5 lety +246

      all mischiefs in Greek Mythology is Zeus' fault LOL

    • @AdamOctorachmadi
      @AdamOctorachmadi Před 5 lety +59

      Troll Dad

  • @Magicallyrandom
    @Magicallyrandom Před 5 lety +822

    The point of Zeus making pandora and the box was to punish humanity to begin with because of Prometheus. She was always meant to open the box as a trap from zeus-- she was a human incarnation of a trojan horse.

    • @M0rtanius
      @M0rtanius Před 5 lety +26

      Thanks for clearing that up, Ted ed's whitewashed retelling didn't really make sense but now it does!

    • @vigneshnadar9475
      @vigneshnadar9475 Před 5 lety +1

      Nope you are wrong....pandora box is created to trap all the evils which was came from war between titans and gods

    • @user-eo7fh6ls8z
      @user-eo7fh6ls8z Před 5 lety +9

      @@vigneshnadar9475 no

    • @aruhik
      @aruhik Před 5 lety +28

      @@vigneshnadar9475 Wrong. It was a punishment from Zeus. Zeus gave her curiosity and a box. The curiosity was the reason she opened the box, zeus wanted her to open the box thats why he gave her curiosity.

    • @clearancejohn
      @clearancejohn Před 5 lety +1

      @@vigneshnadar9475 cmon bruh...

  • @stam10
    @stam10 Před 2 lety +27

    Congrats Ted Ed, it’s an honour for us, the Greeks, to transmit the history of Greek mythology to all the people with such an entertaining and interesting way!
    The history on its own, is not enough, it’s also about the way you pass it to your listener!

  • @speedracer2008
    @speedracer2008 Před 7 měsíci +1

    This myth always reminds me of the Firebird Suite segment in Fantasia 2000 (1999), because they both involve forces being released and wreaking havoc, due to curiosity.

  • @reneumeh8601
    @reneumeh8601 Před 4 lety +3160

    Hephaestus: Hey guys, I made a daughter
    Zeus: I'm about to end this girl's whole career

    • @byronsenior6499
      @byronsenior6499 Před 4 lety +9

      Technically he started it. Without him she wouldn't have infamy. She'd just be forgotten.

    • @TylrTheDstryr
      @TylrTheDstryr Před 4 lety +25

      Everyone: "You. Did. WHAT."

    • @hoopitydoopity
      @hoopitydoopity Před 3 lety +5

      I thought you said hepatitus

    • @dhananjayvasudeva7628
      @dhananjayvasudeva7628 Před 3 lety +13

      Zeus: hates mankind
      Also zeus: I need to frick that wamen

    • @asmiroy2926
      @asmiroy2926 Před 3 lety +3

      Not career, HER FRIGGING LIFE

  • @cherche8949
    @cherche8949 Před 5 lety +664

    zeus be giving pandora curiosity and then giving her the box that “must never be seen”

    • @aohbmaeid
      @aohbmaeid Před 5 lety +52

      You'll notice in the Greek stories that the Greek immortals liked that kind of setting people up to fail, among other evils.

    • @Buzzity
      @Buzzity Před 5 lety +56

      Zeus set Pandora up for failure so he could punish human kind for getting fire thanks to Prometheus.
      And Zeus is just a A-hole who thots around.

    • @jophielswings
      @jophielswings Před 5 lety +20

      what an absolute cockwomble.

    • @kyc269
      @kyc269 Před 5 lety +14

      Kinda sounds like God putting Adam and Eve in a beautiful garden paradise and telling them “Don’t eat from that tree of knowledge, yes that one right over there.”

    • @MillionZillion
      @MillionZillion Před 5 lety +1

      It's all in his plans, I tell ya

  • @aryakidora
    @aryakidora Před rokem +13

    Here to educate myself for Jack in the box

  • @JK_Candy_Star
    @JK_Candy_Star Před rokem +9

    I just listened to Jack in the box album
    And really liked the song pandora’s box

  • @P.Whitestrake
    @P.Whitestrake Před 5 lety +1288

    I read somewhere that Pandora's Box wasn't originally a box. It was actually a jar (pithos, in Greek). The object became a box in the story because of the Latin version of the story mistranslated pithos as pyxis (vessel), later became box.

    • @chickenfinger7829
      @chickenfinger7829 Před 5 lety +29

      AggressiveNegotiator It was a storage jar; There's no difference in meaning or symbolism from pithos, box, chest, jar, or vase.
      Thanks for sharing and attempting to spread knowledge!

    • @blankname6657
      @blankname6657 Před 5 lety +20

      You are correct, but it originally became known as a box because of mistakes in translation and pronunciation back a long time ago. Slowly, people recognized it ws a "box" rather than a vase, but it's just a common saying now so everyone goes with it.

    • @geraldgrenier8132
      @geraldgrenier8132 Před 5 lety +9

      And Pandora's Pithos has alliteration

    • @seastilton7912
      @seastilton7912 Před 5 lety

      AggressiveNegotiator Yeah I think that's true

    • @anushkanavetia
      @anushkanavetia Před 5 lety +15

      Yes you are right, and by the way the book must be Percy Jackson; The Last Olympians. I love this series :) ;).

  • @ikkhyle
    @ikkhyle Před měsícem +2

    Pandora's box serves as a reminder of the importance of mindfulness and the need to think things carefully before doing an action. The story highlights the balance between hope and despair in life. On my opinion curiosity can be both a blessing and a potential source of trouble. On the other hand curiosity drives innovation, creativity, and personal growth. Curiosity motivates us to explore, learn, and understand the world around us, however, unchecked curiosity can lead to unexpected consequences and danger, as I've seen in the story of Pandora's box.
    The story suggest extreme consequences on tempering with the unknown, but Pandora's burning curiosity also suggest the duality that lies in the heart of human inquiry…
    The story will always remind us that, although bad things are happening around us, there is still beauty left the world and the only thing that we need is ourselves to help it to find.

  • @jahnavi.youtube
    @jahnavi.youtube Před rokem +10

    Actually I am here after jhope's song to know more about the concept that led to the song 💜

  • @naomirae6096
    @naomirae6096 Před 5 lety +2050

    Inside the pandora box is more james charles tea

  • @nielshaentjens5758
    @nielshaentjens5758 Před 5 lety +346

    The fact that 'Hope' was the last thing left in the box shows that hope isn't always to be associated with positive things. Hope, in some circumstances, can destroy you.

    • @aohbmaeid
      @aohbmaeid Před 5 lety +35

      To me it shows that hope is always the last thing standing. All the evils burst out of the box (pithos), but hope lies in wait for you to release it, it won't leave without you letting it. I do agree that hope can be quite destructive in some cases however.

    • @Harrier_DuBois
      @Harrier_DuBois Před 5 lety +2

      Give me an example when hope would destroy someone?

    • @aohbmaeid
      @aohbmaeid Před 5 lety +20

      ​@@Harrier_DuBois Hope can be destructive when your heart is broken. In cases where it's crucial to accept that something is over, namely. After a breakup, if you keep hoping it can work out when it's a toxic or unhealthy relationship. When losing someone to death, or when things change permanently in life, as they must; we always hope that it can go back to where it was. Many a poor soul has lost their sanity and their will to live over such things.

    • @maggiesinthemud5638
      @maggiesinthemud5638 Před 5 lety +2

      In most versions hope never left the box.

    • @erickcastellanos6814
      @erickcastellanos6814 Před 5 lety

      Niels Haentjens great analysis for Ap Lang or Lit

  • @jasminkth6633
    @jasminkth6633 Před rokem +6

    When I think of J-hope songs I feel it has a really deep meaning...the story is so good

  • @Suki4na
    @Suki4na Před 2 měsíci +1

    Thank's so much for this video, I really enjoyed it and it inspired me so much, this helped with my project so much❤. Thank you so much Ted Ed❤

  • @ynah8336
    @ynah8336 Před 5 lety +254

    Give her a box that will never meant to be opened
    *GiVes HeR cUriOuSiTy*
    Zeus: *WhAt WoUlD pOsSiBlY gO wRoNg?*

  • @galgar5660
    @galgar5660 Před 5 lety +796

    The gods gave her a lot of gifts... in fact Pandora in Greek means "all gifts"

    • @Rafayel06
      @Rafayel06 Před 5 lety +31

      So, pan means all and dora means gifts, right?

    • @munendersingh5631
      @munendersingh5631 Před 5 lety +5

      Roughly

    • @galgar5660
      @galgar5660 Před 5 lety +23

      @@Rafayel06 yes, pas pasa pan means all (masculine, feminine and neutral) and doron means gift (dora is the plural)

    • @Buzzity
      @Buzzity Před 5 lety

      Yes, it does.

    • @user-dx5bn4yk4f
      @user-dx5bn4yk4f Před 5 lety +6

      Giulio D'Arrigo greek is so beautiful. One of my favorite languages beside italian and spanish.

  • @BamBam-je4yf
    @BamBam-je4yf Před 2 lety +2

    love the animation, cheers to the artist. Also thanks for the information, needed it!

  • @JOANNA-dn5iu
    @JOANNA-dn5iu Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks! In my class I was learning this and after watching this video, I learn more. I enjoy watching this kind of video

  • @anhahello9831
    @anhahello9831 Před 5 lety +2013

    Zeus: **gives Pandora a box to never be opened**
    Also Zeus: *LeTS GIve HEr CuRiOSitY!*
    Athena where were you when this happened...

  • @TheStaffmaster
    @TheStaffmaster Před 5 lety +505

    in the ORIGINAL MYTH, Hope was supposed to be the greatest ill of all, because it gives humanity the delusion that they can affect change upon the world to lessen suffering, when in reality that ability was supposedly only the purview of the gods. (I.e. it make one think that they can challenge the threads of Fate, and even the gods are rarely successful in that endeavor.)

    • @KVandendriessche
      @KVandendriessche Před 5 lety +8

      TheStaffmaster that’s how I learned the story as well.

    • @ynkrock7
      @ynkrock7 Před 5 lety +8

      I disagree. Like you mentioned, the gods themselves were subject to Fate. Their hope, in spite of their knowledge of this, and of their belief in an afterlife full of suffering, was almost an affirmation of their suffering. They found meaning in it. I'd it's not quite a delusion, but a rejection of a life without meaning due to Fate.

    • @madisonatteberry9720
      @madisonatteberry9720 Před 5 lety +21

      The version I'm familiar with was hope was intentionally left last so when Pandora opened the box she would allow all the ills and evils to befall the world and close it only when hope was left unknown to her and trapping it from all humanity...............................................the old Gods were short of dicks.

    • @TheStaffmaster
      @TheStaffmaster Před 5 lety

      @@madisonatteberry9720 That's the B version. I'm familiar with that one as well. Perhaps one is the Macedonian version and the other the Greek version.

    • @madisonatteberry9720
      @madisonatteberry9720 Před 5 lety +1

      @@TheStaffmaster Perhaps. For me it's hard to tell which is which as both versions are short of bleak and the ancient Greeks were all bleak.

  • @jon6309
    @jon6309 Před 3 lety +4

    I really really love this story and how this channel interpreted it compared to other channels. I can relate to this story with my personal journey learning divination. My burning curiosity has led me to the path of divination which has changed my perspective of the World forever and cannot be reversed even though I miss my old perception of life but there is a silver lining of hope even though I am a bit pessimistic and confused about this new path at the current moment.

    • @haongngoc1215
      @haongngoc1215 Před 2 lety

      What is the path you're mentioning?

    • @jon6309
      @jon6309 Před 2 lety

      @@haongngoc1215 my personal path!

  • @megancashatt
    @megancashatt Před 2 lety +90

    Some fun facts I've heard about this story:
    -Pandora was a gift from Zeus to Epimethius.
    -The box was a gift to Pandora on her and Epi’s wedding day.
    -Zeus made Pandora as a punishment, giving her the box knowing she would open it. Pandora was created to bring the punishment of mankind (Death, Disease, Greed, Sorrow, etc.) for accepting the gift of fire from Prometheus.
    Pandora opening the box was all a part of Zeus’s plans for revenge on man. Zeus always gets his way and his honor.
    Correction: Zeus didn’t create Pandora he ordered her creation from Hephaestus (the God of Forge), who was also ordered to chain Prometheus.

    • @jacquelsimon4168
      @jacquelsimon4168 Před 11 měsíci +6

      I dont know if this is just me but i terms of the third point, i think this story is tied to christianity, i think Jehovah genuinely wanted Eve to eat the fruit so that the full story of the bible would play out on Earth.

    • @Rika_kaiyo
      @Rika_kaiyo Před 9 měsíci +1

      ​@@jacquelsimon4168dang, thanks for the info

  • @artificialpanda7173
    @artificialpanda7173 Před 4 lety +800

    "And at the bottom of Pandora's box, all that remains was hope"

  • @va9780
    @va9780 Před 5 lety +823

    Zeus- Let me bless this child with the gift of eternal curiosity.
    Also Zeus- Hmmmm......What do I do with this box containing all the horrors of the world?
    *LOOKS AT PANDORA*
    *HANDS OVER THE BOX TO PANDORA*
    Zeus- Job. Well. Done. Now what's Hercules been upto these days?

  • @sarahvalencia3350
    @sarahvalencia3350 Před 2 lety

    The fact that i already knew and read this story but here i am watching and listening to it like im addicted to this story.

  • @saadiasaulat9886
    @saadiasaulat9886 Před rokem +9

    comes to thus video casue jhope named a song after this

  • @sketchthis4711
    @sketchthis4711 Před 5 lety +646

    They always say
    Curiosity killed the cat
    But what they don't say is
    Satisfaction brought it back

  • @TommoCarroll
    @TommoCarroll Před 5 lety +600

    You knew I was taking a break with a bit of CZcams didn't you? Surely!? Perfect timing to upload your another one of your *beautiful* videos again 🙌

  • @user-eq2tp1gz1r
    @user-eq2tp1gz1r Před 2 lety +1

    my, my, the colours and details are stunning💚

  • @trillix9864
    @trillix9864 Před 3 lety +7

    I love how everybody points out the curiosity thing and the box and how that isn’t a good idea and it isn’t Zeus knew Zeus wanted to punish the humans for excepting the gift of fire so he created Pandora and gave her a bad box and curiosity basically making her into a time bomb

  • @arpitchanand1970
    @arpitchanand1970 Před 5 lety +415

    From what I have read before, the gods made Pandora to punish Ephimetheus’s brother, Prometheus who has stolen the gods’ fire and gave it to mortals. So the gods made Pandora and gave her to Ephimetheus and gave her the box containing humanity’s greatest disgraces so that this family would be blame (to punish them for what Prometheus did). So she opened the box out of her internally given curiosity’s for released these disgraces out into the world. But the gods did not intend to leave the mortals in absolute peril so they put in Elpis, or Hope in the box also. Hope that helps heheheh

    • @sarinakhera342
      @sarinakhera342 Před 5 lety +11

      yeah, this is the same version i've heard before

    • @sherfey06
      @sherfey06 Před 5 lety +11

      Yeah but people have never mentioned the other thing in the box, hope. I'm glad that they added it in this story.

    • @moemenchalouati4182
      @moemenchalouati4182 Před 4 lety

      Where did you read that

    • @freelancers_corner
      @freelancers_corner Před 4 lety +4

      @@moemenchalouati4182 Mythology by Edith Hamilton, read up

    • @moemenchalouati4182
      @moemenchalouati4182 Před 4 lety +3

      @@freelancers_corner thanks i will

  • @walkingbreadstick8610
    @walkingbreadstick8610 Před 3 lety +1099

    Baby pandora: literally has red hair
    Pandora: has blue hair
    THaTs GoD dAmn ConSistEnt

  • @mrsprite399
    @mrsprite399 Před rokem +8

    So That's the story of Jack in the box. Nice

  • @StarBoundFables
    @StarBoundFables Před 2 lety +3

    Thanks for creating & sharing this wonderful mythological story with us 🙏🏽 Kinda funny that Zeus totally loaded the box up once & is like "Naah, can't do that again" 😄

    • @GjaP_242
      @GjaP_242 Před rokem

      Before we offer a summary of the story of Pandora’s box, and analyse its meaning, it’s best to do a bit of myth-busting of our own: ‘Pandora’s box’ wasn’t actually a box. Pandora’s ‘box’ was actually Pandora’s jar.
      Source: Interesting Literature

  • @jfele4049
    @jfele4049 Před 5 lety +190

    I love the way that you tell Legends. greetings from Greece

    • @halloooo1duuuuu
      @halloooo1duuuuu Před 5 lety +5

      Kokkinogenis dreams Greetings from Germany, I've been to Greece. Your country is truly beautiful!

  • @jonasraphael1401
    @jonasraphael1401 Před 5 lety +228

    However this is not the full story of Pandora, you’re missing why Pandora was created and why Zevs gave her the box, leaving out the duality of hope as Zevs didn't place it there as a blessing but as hope is what makes life worth living despite all the sorrows in belief of a better time, hence making it the blessing of fortitude and the curse of self-torment

    • @TheCrippledCreeper
      @TheCrippledCreeper Před 5 lety +23

      I feel this is one of the most important parts of Pandora's story. The art is good but this retelling is lackluster, missing a lot of the symbolism for the sake of simplicity.

    • @MrGregory777
      @MrGregory777 Před 5 lety +9

      Hope is what makes people endure hardships. Sounds to me like a curse. I would rather have courage and fight back the hardship

    • @ynkrock7
      @ynkrock7 Před 5 lety +12

      The Greeks had quite an interesting view on life. Through tragedies, they showed that, despite their status as mere mortals in a world dominated by gods and fate, there was an underlying beauty to their suffering. Tis why I love Greek myths, oh so beautiful!

    • @Kookie-zv4bu
      @Kookie-zv4bu Před 5 lety +1

      This reminded me of the lyrics "Where there is hope, there are trials" from Sea

    • @nitee2100
      @nitee2100 Před 5 lety

      I need to know the original myth now

  • @joshualumbe1842
    @joshualumbe1842 Před 10 měsíci

    I have watched this like ten times, A Pandora box for me from TED- Ed.... Amazing stories🙏🙏

  • @pree5292
    @pree5292 Před rokem +15

    This recommended me at the perfect time....
    JHOPE'S" JACK IN THE BOX" album is based on this myth 😃... The masterpiece he made... LEGEND JHOPE..

  • @daneyyp3328
    @daneyyp3328 Před 3 lety +996

    It's like the temptation of Adam and Eve story in the Bible. Zeus as God. Curiosity gift as free will. Box as the Forbidden fruit.

    • @harleyurch301
      @harleyurch301 Před 3 lety +42

      Yes, I’m actually watching this because someone who was explaining Adam and Eve as pretty comparable, almost as proof that that really did happen, cause the stories align. 😁 it’s neat

    • @brucewayne2955
      @brucewayne2955 Před 3 lety +12

      Never thought of it like that. Neat. Then again I just learned about the legend of Pandora's Box. I mean I always heard about it, but never learned the actual story

    • @curiousthinker8040
      @curiousthinker8040 Před 3 lety +23

      I think the stories are similar because there really are sacred plants on Earth that will show people a lot more than society was ready for at the time. People back then feared what they couldn't understand. Furthermore, there are also many deadly plants that can cause mania, so they probably didn't want people to go experimenting with everything that came their way.

    • @aidanreyes4325
      @aidanreyes4325 Před 3 lety +41

      a lot of the Old Testament stories were actually based on Ancient Greek & Egyptian mythology.

    • @curiousthinker8040
      @curiousthinker8040 Před 3 lety +49

      @@TheWSYNkatevy153 And you know this with such certainty how?

  • @user-bo9we9cv9r
    @user-bo9we9cv9r Před 5 lety +90

    *Fun Fact*: Pandora in Greek (pan+dora//παν+δώρα) means the one with all the gifts and she was named Pandora because of the fact that the Gods gave her all those traits/gifts mentioned in the video

  • @strawberryjam6612
    @strawberryjam6612 Před 2 lety +37

    fun fact: the original story never indicated that pandora didn’t know what was in the pythos. Pandora was the gods punishment for humanity after prometheus gave them fire. also, at least in the versions i’ve read, hope never left the pythos, being symbolic of how hope will not leave humanity

    • @visceraeyes525
      @visceraeyes525 Před rokem +1

      ironically enough, hope is the worst of all evils

    • @kingzcomparison3683
      @kingzcomparison3683 Před rokem +1

      @@visceraeyes525 How?

    • @visceraeyes525
      @visceraeyes525 Před rokem +1

      @@kingzcomparison3683 because it prolongs the torments of man

    • @kingzcomparison3683
      @kingzcomparison3683 Před rokem +3

      @@visceraeyes525 Hmm ok but without hope we would not be here. What we accomplished in the past 100 years. If humanity lost hope after the World war 1 or World 2 we would not be this technologically advanced and you and I won't be replying to each other.

    • @fbiagent3998
      @fbiagent3998 Před 10 měsíci +2

      ​@@visceraeyes525what? Hope is what keeps you going. Without hope we would all be depressed and k worded ourselves. It's ingrained into us

  • @aradhyaakulshrestha8361

    At first , a very beautiful vedio it was. And a big thanks to Ted-Ed ,your vedios are great and share sommuch of information about things we didn't knew about

  • @onallisandro2585
    @onallisandro2585 Před 5 lety +148

    Zeus:
    Gives Pandora the gift of curiosity.
    Also gives her box with no hint of the contents and telling her not to open it
    Man Zeus must've had a cruel sense of humor

  • @abouttime837
    @abouttime837 Před 5 lety +708

    I thought the first thing that’d be clarified is that it was originally a vase 🏺 and not a box

    • @P.Whitestrake
      @P.Whitestrake Před 5 lety +62

      Quite. It's actually a large jar, from the Greek word "phitos."

    • @har16923
      @har16923 Před 5 lety +31

      😂🤣😂🤣
      It's not a box that doesn't exist
      But a vase that doesn't exist.
      Flawless logic

    • @simonepradhan5023
      @simonepradhan5023 Před 5 lety +2

      Phitos

    • @Harry-zn7yb
      @Harry-zn7yb Před 5 lety +12

      @@har16923 They're just trying to be mythologically correct

    • @blackdragons8011
      @blackdragons8011 Před 5 lety +17

      Yeah. And Pandora didn't open the "box" because she was curious. Women were the punishment for Men because they regained fire from Prometeus after Zeus took it away from them. And Pandora was only made to become part the humens (Men) and then unleash Zeus' punishment upon them.

  • @sreeja09
    @sreeja09 Před 2 lety

    Your youtube channel explains everything in a very simple way

  • @notverypoggersofyouhajime4980

    “the only thing left in the box was hope.”
    **nagito komeada has joined the chat**

  • @whatshouldwecallher6417
    @whatshouldwecallher6417 Před 3 lety +508

    Somebody opened pandora's box in December 2019.

  • @itsjustmeofficial
    @itsjustmeofficial Před 5 lety +417

    But the real question is
    When will Ted do a TED talk

    • @rainrhapsody2411
      @rainrhapsody2411 Před 4 lety +2

      Doesn't Ted stand for technology, education and design?

    • @danny8284
      @danny8284 Před 4 lety +2

      @@rainrhapsody2411 yeah but it's a joke

    • @rainrhapsody2411
      @rainrhapsody2411 Před 4 lety +1

      @@danny8284 Oh my bad😅

    • @danny8284
      @danny8284 Před 4 lety +1

      @@rainrhapsody2411 lol I didn't get it at first either

    • @Bianca-iz5wk
      @Bianca-iz5wk Před 3 lety +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @alokji77
    @alokji77 Před 3 lety

    Wow, nice story. Amazing. But for my teacher, I would never have stumbled upon this great story

  • @mintchoco3800
    @mintchoco3800 Před 2 lety

    coming here to see how relatable it is to Bambam's comeback AAA! I am excited!

  • @munendersingh5631
    @munendersingh5631 Před 5 lety +211

    It's said that hope is the most horrendous of all evils in the box as all other evils play with the body and the mind but hope deceives the soul and forlongs its suffering . Hope cause humans to hold onto this world and wait eternally for the better times that never come
    Or else I am just a edge lord

    • @ynkrock7
      @ynkrock7 Před 5 lety +1

      The Greeks did not believe in a happy afterlife, quite the opposite. If anything, their hope was rooted in finding beauty and meaning in spite of their suffering. When Odysseus found Achilles in the underworld, all Achilles hoped for was one more day on Earth, even as a poor farmer. He regretted his choice of choosing immortality through his heroics versus living a life full of inherent suffering.

    • @DancingBugBoi
      @DancingBugBoi Před 5 lety

      +ynkrock7 it all depends on where you end up, really good ones where sent to Eural which was said to be grand.

    • @Baronnax
      @Baronnax Před 5 lety +2

      In the words of Nolan's Bane: "There is no true despair without hope."

    • @ayushalder
      @ayushalder Před 5 lety

      Well he dead now so jokes on him

    • @pourna3165
      @pourna3165 Před 5 lety

      You're just an edge lord

  • @lightningcool1049
    @lightningcool1049 Před 5 lety +527

    Why would you give her curiosity and a mysterious box not to open??
    Zeus is drunk😂😂😂

    • @lightningcool1049
      @lightningcool1049 Před 4 lety +3

      Honestly thats even worse

    • @veenarani5413
      @veenarani5413 Před 4 lety +17

      @Galva Tron Yeah because loving who you want to love is worse than poverty, nuclear war and climate change.

    • @coolbeans5911
      @coolbeans5911 Před 4 lety +17

      @Galva Tron last i checked, most wars were started by men, and more acts of violence are committed by men than women. But sure, blame the gays

    • @spacekid9680
      @spacekid9680 Před 4 lety +2

      @@coolbeans5911 hey! It's not *my* fault!

    • @tsarinaballerina4
      @tsarinaballerina4 Před 4 lety

      Lightning Cool
      Yeah, Ganymede gave him too much to drink...

  • @Lizzie-ve7kt
    @Lizzie-ve7kt Před rokem +4

    Okay but if Pandora was with Epimetheus, couldn’t she have skirted around the issue by having him open the box to tell her what was inside since he was a Titan and not a human? Zeus only said the box wasn’t for human eyes so would a Titan opening it mean that everything would remain contained?

  • @lyna7038
    @lyna7038 Před 2 lety

    This video brings back so many memories I used to be opssesed with Greek mythology as a child

  • @sourabhs14
    @sourabhs14 Před 5 lety +165

    _Schrodinger's cat, has left the chat_ ..

  • @sleepyysleep
    @sleepyysleep Před 4 lety +263

    the gods: *gives pandora intense curiosity*
    also the gods: “lets give her a box she shouldn’t open lol”

    • @faye3642
      @faye3642 Před 3 lety +8

      “but there’s a twist! we’re also gonna make her extremely curious 🤭”

    • @justinaleligay4604
      @justinaleligay4604 Před 3 lety +6

      It was a punishment as the titan Prometheus stole fire and gave it to mankind and so Zeus sent Pandora to the home of Epithemeus who was Prometheus' brother where she would unleash the horrors inside the box he gave her to punish Prothemeus as he was the one who created mankind

  • @inessa5923
    @inessa5923 Před rokem

    The colors here really remind me of Lore Olympus... Which is the reason I'm here in the first place. Love it.

  • @trelarasleontas3531
    @trelarasleontas3531 Před 2 lety

    2:04 over time, she became less human and more ... divine

  • @poliposebna
    @poliposebna Před 5 lety +326

    Ignoring the point of this video, but just wanting to say that the animation and art style are really cool!

    • @atariblue
      @atariblue Před 5 lety +2

      I was digging it too. Reminiscent of the art style in Disney's Hercules.

    • @halloooo1duuuuu
      @halloooo1duuuuu Před 5 lety

      An another human it is! The character really match the image of Greek gods.

    • @Bibibosh
      @Bibibosh Před 5 lety +2

      An another human Misty would be proud! TOGGAPEEEEE

  • @shai9651
    @shai9651 Před 5 lety +444

    Zeus' gift wasn't actually a box. It's a pithos or as translated in English, a jar

  • @Portrial
    @Portrial Před 5 lety +30

    Zeus: *gives Pandora curiosity*
    also Zeus: *gives Pandora a box and instructed not to open*

    • @noodles1291
      @noodles1291 Před 5 lety +1

      Portrial of Destiny that was the whole point, curiosity was bound to destroy her and the whole of humanity

  • @lemonboiyoutube
    @lemonboiyoutube Před 3 lety +514

    Great video! However, from all of our orginal Greek sources, it's Pandora's Pithos, a type of Greek jar, not a box. Pandora's Box is a mistranslation. Secondly, this plan was devised by the gods as a way to hurt mankind and blame it on Epimetheus, Prometheus's brother, as another way to further punish Prometheus for gifting fire to mankind, and to punish mankind for receiving it.
    This version of the story could possible exist, but it is very unlikely, and contains many modern additions. The Greek Gods were not viewed as benevolent, but merely reflections of reality. Ted-ed's versions of these myths are not accurate reflections of the greco-roman mythos, but they have animations so thats cool.

    • @YoussefE.
      @YoussefE. Před 3 lety +23

      Underrated comment.

    • @davidsinger-carter2837
      @davidsinger-carter2837 Před 3 lety +11

      Thank you.

    • @alovelysoul4114
      @alovelysoul4114 Před 2 lety +15

      I was looking for this comment!!! Thank you.

    • @kyratawney7591
      @kyratawney7591 Před 2 lety +22

      Pithos were used for storing wine, olive oil, and other provisions, and also ritually as containers for human bodies ready for burying. Maybe she wanted a snack in reality? Lol.

    • @lemonboiyoutube
      @lemonboiyoutube Před 2 lety +1

      @@kyratawney7591 lol

  • @undead_siege_1493
    @undead_siege_1493 Před 5 lety +75

    Pandora: opens box
    Zeus: yo wtf

  • @abbyxiong362
    @abbyxiong362 Před 4 lety +28

    I heard a different story of pandora, and it was actually in my 4th grade textbook. It said that pandora was a beautiful mortal who caught the eyes of Zeus (as always) and Hera was understandably mad, so she had him give pandora a box. Zeus gave pandora out of the box, and out of curiosity opened it.

  • @bagelbagel6518
    @bagelbagel6518 Před 4 lety +68

    "So heres the trait of curiosity!"
    "Oh cool!"
    "Also heres this box you can't ever open under any circumstances"
    " :/ "

  • @karusun1630
    @karusun1630 Před 5 lety +48

    Hope is not the enemy nor the counterpart to the monsters unleashed through Pandora's box, Hope is the worst monster of them all, able to lull you into a false sense of change and security that leads people the cruelest acts of mankind. There were and still people who kill with the "hope" of making things better.

    • @AlexanderTheGothita
      @AlexanderTheGothita Před 5 lety +3

      Hold on. That's not true. There's plenty of bad things that happen with hope, but in the majority GOOD things come out of it. Have you even been outside of your house

    • @aceh5867
      @aceh5867 Před 5 lety

      Karu Sun wow, so edgy.

  • @tastycucumber945
    @tastycucumber945 Před 5 lety +249

    Zeus:gives her curiosity
    Also Zeus :gives her a box
    Still Zeus :dont ever open it
    Ticked of Pandora:now ytf u give it to me if u didn't want me to open it
    Zeus: coz one day ull make a great story