According to Greek mythology, Pandora was said to be the first woman.
Hesiod presents Pandora as a divinely fashioned woman sent into the human world after Prometheus gave fire to humanity. The gods contribute different qualities or gifts to her, and her arrival forms part of Hesiod’s explanation for why human life includes toil, illness and other hardships.
Calling Pandora the first woman belongs to the mythic narrative, not to an historical or scientific account of human origins. In the poem, she is not described simply as an ordinary person appearing in an existing society; her creation is a deliberate divine response to the theft of fire.
Pandora is sometimes confused with Eve because both figures appear in influential stories about the origins of human trouble. They belong to different religious traditions, however. Pandora is a figure of Greek mythology, while Eve belongs to the Hebrew Bible and later Abrahamic traditions.