What are the allusions of the sword of Damocles, Pandora's box and Achilles heel? What exactly does it mean?

1. Sword of Damocles:

Originated from ancient Greek legend, King Theseus of Dionis invited his minister Damocles to dinner and made him sit under a cold sword hanging from a horse's mane. The resulting foreign allusion means that people are in a state of crisis and are enduring in the Jedi. Or have a sense of crisis at any time, and ring an alarm bell in your heart.

The story itself means serious consequences that may be brought at any time. After peace and tranquility, there are dangers and uneasiness, so we should be cautious and independent.

2. Pandora's box:

Pandora (Greek: π α ν δ? ρα； Pandora), the first woman on the earth made of clay by the fire god Hephaestus or Zeus in Greek mythology, was given to human beings as a punishment for Prometheus' creation of man and stealing fire. The gods also joined in to make her more attractive.

According to the myth, Pandora opened the box and released all the evils in the world-greed, hypocrisy, slander, jealousy, pain, etc. However, according to the will of Zeus, the king of gods, Pandora closed the box before the hope was released, and finally locked it in the box forever.

3. Achilles' Heel:

Achilles' heel, which originally refers to Achilles' heel, is the only place where Achilles has not been soaked in divine water, which is his only weakness. Later, he was shot to death in the Trojan War. Now it generally refers to the fatal weakness.

Achilles is the precious son of mortal peleus and beautiful fairy thetis. In order to make his son a golden bell jar, thetis dipped it upside down into the Styx when he was just born. Unfortunately, the heel held by his mother was accidentally exposed to the water, leaving the only "dead hole" all over his body.

Later, Achilles was shot in the ankle by Paris and died. Later generations often use "Achilles' heel" as a metaphor for the truth that even a powerful hero has a fatal hole or weakness. Extended information

Damocles is a character that appeared in an independent moral anecdote that was later added to ancient Greek culture.

this image is a legend, not a Greek myth. Anecdotes appear in the lost history of Sicily written by Timaios of taormina (356 BC-26 BC). Cicero may have read about it in the works of Diodoros Sikurus, and quoted it in his book Tusculan Disputations》V.21.

The sword of Damocles is usually used to symbolize this legend, which means that it is very unsafe to have great power, and it is easy to be taken away, or simply, it means that you feel the end is coming.

The woodcut pictures of Damocles' sword appeared in European book designs in the 16th and 17th centuries. The sword of Damocles is also the title of a song in the movie "Rocky Horror Party", which was first broadcast in 1975.

Pandora's myth has a long history, appearing in different versions and being interpreted from different angles. However, in all literary versions, this myth is regarded as natural theology to explain the existence of evil in the world. In the 7th century BC, Hersiod's Divine Spectrum (line 57, Pandora's name was probably mentioned but not completely pointed out) and Works and Days were the earliest literary works about Pandora's story.

accordingly, Pandora's box is often borrowed in English to mean "the source of disasters" and open Pandora's box means "causing all kinds of disasters".

Reference: Sword of Damocles-Baidu Encyclopedia

Reference: Pandora's Box-Baidu Encyclopedia.