Pandora is sometimes described in Greek mythology as the first human woman.
Hesiod presents Pandora as a divinely fashioned woman created after Prometheus gave fire to humanity. Zeus ordered the gods to make her from earth and to provide her with different qualities. Her arrival is therefore not an ordinary birth but a supernatural construction intended to bring a punishment to humankind.
The wording “first woman” belongs to particular Greek mythological traditions and should not be treated as a universal claim across all ancient cultures. Greek mythology contains different creation stories, genealogies, and local traditions, so later authors do not always preserve every detail in the same way.
Pandora’s role also differs from that of Eve in the biblical Book of Genesis. Both figures are sometimes compared in modern discussions because each is linked with the origin of human suffering, but they come from separate religious and literary traditions. Pandora’s story is primarily preserved through Hesiod’s poems.