In Greek mythology, Athena teaches Pandora the crafts of weaving and household work.
Hesiod’s account presents Pandora as a constructed figure assembled through contributions from several gods. Athena, the goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and skilled craftsmanship, teaches her practical arts, especially textile work. This detail helps explain why Pandora is described as a fully prepared woman rather than an ordinary human birth.
The story appears most fully in Hesiod’s Works and Days, where Pandora’s creation forms part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus gives humans fire. Different retellings emphasize different divine gifts, and later summaries sometimes simplify the list. Athena’s role here is not to give Pandora beauty—that role is assigned to Aphrodite in Hesiod’s account—but to provide skill and adornment-related instruction.
Pandora’s story is therefore also a catalogue of divine contributions. Her name means “all-gifted” or “all-giving,” reflecting the myth’s idea that many gods supplied qualities to the first woman.