In Greek mythology, Athena dressed Pandora in fine clothing during her creation.
Hesiod describes Pandora as a divine construction assembled through several gods’ contributions. Athena, associated with wisdom and skilled crafts, clothed the newly made woman and taught her handiwork. This detail appears before Pandora is sent into the human world as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus.
The clothing helps mark Pandora as a finished, socially presentable figure. She is not merely an object or a shapeless creation: the gods equip her with appearance, skills and speech. The myth’s sequence gives different roles to different deities, which is why later retellings can accidentally merge Athena’s contribution with Aphrodite’s.
Aphrodite’s role is linked with beauty, grace and desire, while Hermes is associated with speech and deceptive character. Athena’s particular contribution is clothing and craft. The distinction matters because Pandora is often described generally as receiving beauty from the gods, even though Hesiod distributes the attributes among them.