In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Athena supplied Pandora with her distinctive clothing.
Hesiod describes Pandora as a figure assembled through contributions from several gods. Athena, the goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and crafts, teaches or equips her with skills and provides clothing. Other gods contribute different qualities, helping explain the name Pandora, commonly interpreted as “all-gifted.”
The account is not a simple list that every later retelling preserves. Modern summaries often say that Aphrodite gave beauty or Hermes gave deceit, but translations and interpretations vary in how they describe each divine contribution. Athena’s association with weaving and skilled craft makes her role in clothing especially consistent with her wider mythology.
Pandora’s creation also differs from stories in which she is treated as an independent goddess. In Hesiod, she is fashioned and endowed by the gods before being sent to Epimetheus. The container episode follows this creation narrative, linking divine craftsmanship, human suffering, and Zeus’s punishment in one mythic sequence.