In Greek mythology, Athena taught Pandora skills such as weaving. Hesiod’s description of Pandora’s creation presents Athena as the goddess who gives her instruction in crafts and adorns her with clothing.
Athena’s role fits her wider identity in Greek religion. She is associated with wisdom, strategy, crafts, and textile work, especially weaving. The myth does not present Pandora as a naturally born woman learning through ordinary human experience; instead, her abilities are assembled by divine action before she is sent to Epimetheus.
Other gods contribute different qualities. Hephaestus shapes Pandora, Aphrodite gives beauty and charm, and Hermes supplies a deceptive character and speech. Because several gods participate, summaries sometimes attribute all of Pandora’s gifts to Zeus or to Hephaestus, but the traditional account assigns specific contributions.
The story is preserved most fully in Hesiod’s Works and Days. It is also discussed in the Theogony, although the two poems differ in how much detail they provide. Athena’s weaving lesson is one of the myth’s clearest links between Pandora and the cultural symbolism of women’s textile work in ancient Greece.