Pandora is described as the first woman in the Greek myth associated with the jar.
Hesiod presents Pandora as a divinely created woman formed from earth at Zeus’s command. The gods adorn her and give her various qualities before she is sent to Epimetheus. Her creation is part of the myth’s explanation for the arrival of suffering, labor, and other hardships in human existence.
This description belongs to Hesiod’s particular mythic framework and should not be confused with every Greek origin story. Greek mythology contains many different accounts of humanity, gods, and legendary ancestors, and later writers sometimes adapt or reinterpret Pandora’s role.
Pandora is also distinct from Eve in the biblical tradition. Both figures have been compared in later literature because each is linked with an origin story involving disobedience and human suffering, but they belong to different cultures, texts, and religious traditions.