The relief on the base of Phidias' Athena Parthenos depicts the origin of this woman, and her story precedes that of the story of the Four Ages in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  
The relief on the base of Phidias' Athena Parthenos depicts the origin of this woman, and her story precedes that of the story of the Four Ages in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  She is not named in Hesiod's Theogony but referred to as a "beautiful evil."  However according to The Works and the Days she is taught to weave by Athena, given a thieving mind by Hermes and built by Hephaestus.   She was then given in marriage to Epimetheus to punish man's acceptance of the gift of fire from Prometheus.  FTP name this first mortal woman who unleashes evil onto the world by opening her namesake box.
The relief on the base of Phidias' Athena Parthenos depicts the origin of this woman, and her story precedes that of the story of the Four Ages in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  
Pandora