In the Greek myth of Pandora, Athena taught her household crafts. Hesiod’s Works and Days lists Athena among the gods who equip Pandora before she is sent to Epimetheus.
Athena was the Greek goddess associated with wisdom, strategy, practical skill, and crafts such as weaving. Her contribution gives Pandora the cultivated abilities expected of a capable woman in the social world imagined by the poem. Pandora is therefore not portrayed as an empty or unfinished figure: the gods deliberately make her attractive, skilled, and persuasive.
Athena’s role is distinct from Aphrodite’s gift of beauty and Hermes’s gift of deceit. Later summaries often compress all the divine contributions into a general statement that “the gods gave Pandora gifts,” but the poem names particular roles. Identifying Athena as the teacher of crafts also connects Pandora to Athena’s wider association with weaving and skilled handiwork in Greek mythology.