In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Athena taught Pandora women’s domestic skills.
Athena is the Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, crafts, and practical skill. Hesiod’s description says that she taught Pandora crafts, traditionally understood in the context of women’s household work and textile production. This is one of several divine contributions that make Pandora an apparently complete and attractive creation.
The passage reflects social assumptions of archaic Greek poetry, rather than a modern account of education or gender. Pandora’s skills are presented alongside beauty, adornment, and persuasive speech, creating a figure whose gifts conceal the suffering connected with her arrival.
Athena is sometimes confused with Aphrodite in this episode. Aphrodite is associated with beauty and desire, while Athena supplies craft-related abilities. The exact wording and emphasis vary in translation, but Athena’s association with teaching crafts is a stable feature of the standard Hesiodic account.