Athena is said to have clothed Pandora in the Greek creation myth.
Athena, the Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, crafts, and civic life, participates in the divine construction of Pandora. Hesiod’s Works and Days says that Athena teaches Pandora womanly crafts and adorns her with clothing. This detail reflects the poem’s ancient cultural assumptions about gender, domestic work, and idealized appearance.
Pandora’s creation involves several gods, each adding a different quality. Hephaestus shapes her, Aphrodite gives her beauty and desire, and Hermes provides a deceptive or cunning character and speech. Because many gods contribute, summaries sometimes assign Athena’s role incorrectly or attribute the clothing to Aphrodite.
The passage is important evidence for how early Greek poetry imagined divine gifts as potentially double-edged. Skills, beauty, and speech can be valuable, but in the story they also help make Zeus’s punishment effective. Modern adaptations often simplify this multi-god process.