Pandora's box

Summary

Pandora's box is a mythical object^[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of mythical_object entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,482 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Pandora's box's image is recorded as Frederick Stuart Church - Opened up a Pandora's box.jpg^[3].
• Pandora's box's instance of is recorded as mythical object^[4].
• Pandora's box's instance of is recorded as pithos^[5].
• Pandora's box's instance of is recorded as magic item^[6].
• Pandora's box's instance of is recorded as box^[7].
• Pandora's box's instance of is recorded as idiom derived from Greco-Roman mythology^[8].
• Pandora's box's owned by is recorded as Pandora^[9].
• Pandora is named after Pandora's box^[10].
• Pandora's box's part of is recorded as Greek mythology^[11].
• Pandora's box's Commons category is recorded as Pandora^[12].
• Pandora's box's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03hfssy^[13].
• Pandora's box's from narrative universe is recorded as Greek mythology^[14].
• Pandora's box's Iconclass notation is recorded as 91E68(BOX)^[15].
• Pandora's box's partially coincident with is recorded as genie in a bottle^[16].
• Pandora's box's BBC Things ID is recorded as b29f860a-dbec-41d3-87e5-afe3bd7ad7b1^[17].
• Pandora's box's different from is recorded as Verlag Büchse der Pandora^[18].
• Pandora's box's different from is recorded as Pandora's Box^[19].
• Pandora's box's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Concept", "PandorasBox::c83n2"]^[20].
• Pandora's box's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i56942^[21].
• Pandora's box's Giant Bomb ID is recorded as 3055-2091^[22].
• Pandora's box's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as vaso-di-pandora^[23].
• Pandora's box's Comic Vine ID is recorded as 4055-56450^[24].
• Pandora's box's Golden ID is recorded as Pandora's_box-KDRMYJ^[25].
• Pandora's box's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03887322-n^[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Pandora's box include Pandora Papers^[27], an information leak^[28], founded in 2021^[29] and Pandora's Box^[30], a literary work^[31], written by Frank Wedekind^[32].

Why It Matters

Pandora's box ranks in the top 9% of mythical_object entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,482 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for it include Pandora Papers^[27], an information leak^[28], founded in 2021^[29] and Pandora's Box^[30], a literary work^[31], written by Frank Wedekind^[32].