In Hesiod’s Pandora story, Athena teaches Pandora weaving and other handicrafts.
The account in Works and Days describes Pandora as receiving a collection of qualities and skills from the gods. Athena, the goddess associated with wisdom, strategy, and crafts, teaches her practical handiwork. Weaving is especially significant in Greek culture and mythology, where textile production is repeatedly associated with women, household labor, and divine skill.
Pandora’s education is part of a larger creation sequence. Hephaestus forms her from earth, and other gods add beauty, persuasion, charm, or a deceptive nature. Hermes gives her a voice and an associated capacity for misleading speech in the traditional reading.
The story is not the same as later popular images in which Pandora is simply an ordinary woman who discovers a mysterious container. Hesiod’s version deliberately emphasizes that she is designed and adorned by the gods before she enters the human community.