Pandora (Greek myth)

In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν, pān, i.e. "all" and δῶρον, dōron, i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "all-gifted" or "all-giving")[1] was the name of the following women:

Pandora, first human woman created by the gods.[2]
Pandora, daughter of King Deucalion and Pyrrha and granddaughter of the above figure.[3]
Pandora, second eldest daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and Praxithea. Together with her sister Protogeneia, they sacrificed herself on behalf of their country when an army came from Boeotia during the war between Athens and Eleusis. Pandora's other sisters were Procris, Creusa, Oreithyia and Chthonia.[4]

References

πᾶν, δῶρον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project; Evelyn-White, note to Hesiod, Works and Days Schlegel and Weinfield, "Introduction to Hesiod" p. 6; Meagher, p. 148; Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The Pandora-Eve Motif in Rabbinic Literature", The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1974), pp. 341–345.
"Scatter-brained [of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed." (Hesiod, Theogony 510 ff (Hugh G. -White, translator)
Catalogue of Women by Hesiod
Suda s.v. Maidens, Virgins (Παρθένοι)

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[1] πᾶν, δῶρον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project; Evelyn-White, note to Hesiod, Works and Days Schlegel and Weinfield, "Introduction to Hesiod" p. 6; Meagher, p. 148; Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The Pandora-Eve Motif in Rabbinic Literature", The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1974), pp. 341–345.

[2] "Scatter-brained [of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed." (Hesiod, Theogony 510 ff (Hugh G. -White, translator)

[3] Catalogue of Women by Hesiod

[4] Suda s.v. Maidens, Virgins (Παρθένοι)