To counterbalance the advantage given to men by fire, Zeus sent to the earth the first woman, made of clay by Hephaestus. This woman's name was Pandora, which means "all virtue and vice". In fact, every god on Mount Olympus had given to Pandora a quality: Aphrodite, beauty; Athena, competence for domestic labours; Hermes, the gift of telling lies. Zeus gave her a sealed box with the order to never open it. Pandora was given in marriage to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, just as stupid as his brother Prometheus was intelligent.
