In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Athena teaches Pandora domestic crafts.
The goddess Athena gives Pandora practical skills, including weaving and other handicrafts. This contribution is part of a larger divine preparation in which different gods provide separate abilities or attributes.
Athena is strongly associated with wisdom, skilled work, weaving, and craftsmanship in Greek mythology, so her role in Pandora’s creation matches her established identity. Hephaestus shapes Pandora’s body, Aphrodite adds beauty and desire, and Hermes provides speech and deceptive intelligence.
A frequent mix-up is to attribute all of Pandora’s qualities to the god who makes her physical form. Hesiod’s story instead distributes responsibility among several Olympians. Athena’s contribution is specifically connected with craft and useful household work, not with the opening of the container or the decision to send Pandora to humanity. Those events belong to different parts of the myth.