Step 1 : Introduction to the question "According to Greek mythology, who was the first woman on Earth?"
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman, created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. Zeus commissioned Hephaestus (a god of fire and patron of craftsmen) to fashion a woman out of earth, upon whom the gods bestowed their choicest gifts. The Pandora myth addresses the question of why there is evil in the world. According to the story, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box", releasing all the evils of humanity. The phrase "Pandora's box" has endured ever since.