In Hesiod’s Theogony, Pandora’s body is formed from earth.
The passage describes Hephaestus making a likeness of a modest maiden from earth at Zeus’s command. The gods then adorn or endow her with qualities, including clothing, ornaments, and skills. This construction scene makes Pandora a divinely manufactured figure and links her origin to the earth from which mortals are traditionally made.
The Theogony and Works and Days are the two principal early Greek poems associated with Pandora. They do not tell the story in exactly the same way. The Theogony focuses more briefly on her creation and the consequences of Zeus’s plan, while Works and Days gives the fuller account of her opening the vessel and releasing troubles.
“Earth” is sometimes confused with the idea that Pandora was the first woman created from clay in later retellings. The broad image is similar, but the exact wording and narrative emphasis belong to the ancient Greek poems, not to a single unchanged version of the myth.