In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Athena dresses Pandora in a shining robe.
Athena is the Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, crafts, and weaving. In Pandora’s creation scene, she clothes the newly formed woman and adorns her. The image links Athena’s skill in textile work with the larger theme of Pandora as a carefully fashioned divine creation.
Pandora’s appearance is built through contributions from multiple gods. Hephaestus shapes her body, Athena provides clothing, Aphrodite gives beauty, and Hermes gives speech. The gods’ gifts make Pandora attractive and socially capable, which helps explain how she can enter the human household and fulfill Zeus’s purpose.
Later artists frequently show Pandora surrounded by gods, jewelry, and elaborate garments, but not every illustration follows Hesiod’s exact list of contributors. Athena’s role is nevertheless a stable detail in the ancient account. She is not the goddess who gives Pandora beauty; that contribution is associated with Aphrodite.