In Hesiod’s account of Pandora, Athena taught her weaving and other crafts.
Pandora is not made by one god alone. Zeus commands the creation, Hephaestus shapes her, and several deities contribute attributes. Athena, the goddess of wisdom and crafts, teaches Pandora skilled handiwork, especially weaving. This places Pandora within a network of divine gifts rather than making her a simple supernatural object.
Hesiod’s description is part of a wider Greek tradition in which weaving signals both practical skill and social identity. Athena’s association with textile work appears elsewhere in Greek myth, most famously in the story of Arachne. The gift therefore fits Athena’s established character.
Later retellings often reduce the gods’ contributions to a short list or omit them completely. They may also describe Pandora as receiving “all gifts” without identifying their sources. In the surviving Hesiodic account, Athena’s role is one of the specific details that explains the name Pandora and the construction of her character.