In Hesiod’s account, Athena taught Pandora the practical arts of handicraft. This detail appears in the creation scene in Works and Days, where several gods contribute qualities to the first woman.
Hephaestus fashioned Pandora from earth at Zeus’s command, while Athena dressed her and taught her skilled handiwork. Other gods supplied additional gifts, helping explain the name Pandora, commonly interpreted as “all-gifted.”
The myth does not describe Athena as Pandora’s creator alone. Instead, Pandora is a composite creation assembled through the actions of multiple deities. Later retellings often simplify the episode and focus only on Zeus, Hephaestus, or the jar.