In Hesiod’s Greek myth of Pandora, Pandora was made from earth. Zeus instructed Hephaestus to shape her body from earth, establishing her as a constructed human figure rather than a goddess born through ordinary divine parentage.
The detail appears in Works and Days, the Greek poem that gives the fullest early account of Pandora. After Hephaestus forms her, the gods add gifts such as beauty, speech, skill, and persuasive ability. The creation scene makes Pandora a collective divine project, even though Hephaestus performs the actual shaping.
Modern summaries often say Pandora was made from “clay,” but Hesiod’s wording is conventionally translated as earth. Clay is a plausible visual interpretation of earth being shaped, yet it is not the most direct answer to the wording of the ancient poem. The later familiar image of a woman formed like a statue comes from this broader earth-made origin.