Pandora other pains" (100). Prometheus had (fearing further reprisals) warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus. But Epimetheus did not listen; he accepted Pandora, who promptly scattered the contents of her jar. As a result, Hesiod tells us, "the earth and sea are full of evils" (101). One item, however, did not escape the jar (96–9): <poem> Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house, she remained under the lip of the jar, and did not fly away. Before [she could], Pandora replaced the lid of the jar. This was the will of aegis-bearing Zeus the Cloudgatherer.</poem>
Names of the Greeks "Graikoi" (). In Greek mythology, Hellen, the patriarch of Hellenes, was son of Deucalion (who ruled around Phthia) and Pyrrha, the only survivors after the great deluge. Hesiod is referring to Graecus son of Pandora, who was sister of Hellen. Alcman mentions that the mothers of "Hellenes" were "Graikoi". The German classical historian Georg Busolt (1850–1920) derives the name from "Graikos","inhabitant of Graea, a town on the coast of Boeotia. The name "Graea" (γραῖα) is derived from Proto-Greek "grau-j-", "old lady". Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the "Iliad"'s Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to a