In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Athena teaches Pandora weaving and other crafts. The goddess is associated with wisdom, skilled work, warfare, and civic order, so instruction in practical crafts fits her traditional mythological roles.
Pandora is presented as a composite creation rather than the product of one god alone. Hephaestus shapes her from earth, Athena dresses and instructs her, Aphrodite gives her beauty and desire, and Hermes supplies speech and deceptive qualities. The sequence emphasizes that her outward attractiveness and useful abilities coexist with qualities the poem treats as dangerous.
This detail is sometimes obscured by modern retellings that focus only on the jar. Hesiod’s narrative spends considerable attention on how Pandora is made and equipped before describing the consequences of her arrival among humans. Athena’s contribution also helps explain why Pandora is portrayed as capable and accomplished, not merely ornamental.