 Pandora brings with her a jar or, in most stories, a box containing "burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men" (91–92), diseases (102) and "a myriad 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.