title: Pandora's Box: A Three-Dimensional Celebration of the Mythology of Ancient Greece
author: Sara Maitland
description: This title defies easy categorization: it celebrates Greek mythology, ancient culture, and art and poetry in a 'treasure box' package which blends pop-ups, a board game, a sixty-four page book examining Greek mythology, and other treats. This ago defies age categorization: from kids to adults, all will appreciate the treasures and entertaining, educational qualities of this set. -- <i>Midwest Book Review</i>
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  _For Adam, George and Anna._
  
  
  
  
  
  _And for Amelia._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To err is human; to forgive divine.  
  
  
  Alexander Pope
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Poor, poor Pandora. Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially
  bright man she’s never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody
  tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar.
  Naturally, she opens the jar. What else has she got to do? How was she to know
  that all those dreadful ills would go whooshing out to plague mankind forever
  more, and that the only thing left in the jar would be hope? Why wasn’t there
  a warning label?
  
  
  
  
  
  And then, everyone’s like, Oh, Pandora. Where’s your willpower? You were told
  not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable
  curiosity, now look what you’ve gone and done. When for one thing it was a
  jar, not a 