In Hesiod’s account of Pandora, she was made from earth. Works and Days describes Hephaestus shaping a figure from earth at Zeus’s command, after which the other gods endowed her with distinctive qualities.
This detail links Pandora to a broader Greek creation motif in which a divine artisan forms a human-like being from earthly material. The story is not the same as the later biblical account of Adam being formed from dust, although the two traditions are sometimes compared because both involve a human figure made from earth.
Pandora’s material is also important because it separates her origin from ordinary human birth. Hesiod portrays her as a deliberate divine construction and as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. The gods then make her attractive and impressive, while Hermes gives her a deceptive character. Her earthly body and divine preparation combine to make her a uniquely crafted figure in Greek myth.