Pandora is described as the first woman in Hesiod’s Greek mythology.
Works and Days presents Pandora as a crafted woman sent by Zeus after the conflict involving Prometheus. Hephaestus forms her, and the gods equip her with beauty, skills, and other qualities. Her arrival introduces a female figure into a mythic account that explains the origin of human suffering and labor.
This description is part of a Greek etiological story: it offers a mythic explanation for why hardship exists in the human condition. It is not a biological account and should not be confused with the Christian story of Eve, who occupies a different role in a different tradition.
Pandora is also called a “gift” from the gods, but she is not herself an Olympian goddess. Her status is that of a created mortal woman in the narrative. Later art and literature sometimes elevate her into a symbolic goddess-like figure, which can obscure Hesiod’s original description.