men should spend their whole life working.
             For a long time only men were on the earth. Zeus created women later because he was angry with Prometheus for caring so much about men. Prometheus stole fire for man and, he arranged that man could get the best part of any animal that man sacrificed to the gods and the gods got the worst part. After that only fat and bones were burned as sacrifices and the men kept the meat for themselves. Zeus wanted revenge. So, he created a beautiful woman named Pandora, which means "the gift of all", who was a great evil for men. The gods gave her many gifts and one of the gifts was the box that held some harmful things. They told her not to open the box, but she was too curious and opened it anyway. When she did all of the plagues and sorrow for mankind flew out. She closed but it was too late. The only good thing that was in the box was hope, which is considered to be mankind's only source of comfort in times of trouble.
             Adam and Eve had their first two children, which were named Cain and Abel. Abel was a keeper of the sheep (a sheperd) and Cain was a tiller of the ground (a farmer). When it came time for them to give an offering to God, Cain brought an offering of fruit and Abel brought the firstborn of his flock of sheep. God respected Abel's offering but He did not respect Cain's offering. Cain was very angry and in his anger he killed his brother Abel. When God found what Cain had done he cursed him and sent him away to roam the earth.
             The Greeks were at war with the Trojans because Paris took Helen from her husband Menelaus. The war went on for ten years and in those ten years the Greek soldiers had not ever caused any harm to Troy. Then, in a last effort to defeat the Trojans, Odysseus came up with a plan to win the war. He had a man build an enormous horse out of wood. He and many of his men got into the horse while the others sailed away to another island to wa...