According to Hesiod, who fashioned Pandora from earth?

According to Hesiod, Hephaestus fashioned Pandora from earth.

Hephaestus is the Olympian god of fire, metalworking, and craftsmanship. Zeus commands him to create Pandora, and the god shapes her from earth as part of the punishment devised after Prometheus gives fire to humanity. This detail makes Pandora an artificial creation assembled under divine orders.

Other gods then add qualities to the figure. Athena teaches her crafts, Aphrodite gives her beauty, and Hermes contributes deceptive speech or character. The myth presents Pandora as a coordinated divine construction rather than as a goddess born in the ordinary genealogical way.

Modern retellings sometimes say Zeus made Pandora because Zeus initiated the plan. That is not the same as physically fashioning her. In the traditional account, Zeus is the commissioner and Hephaestus is the maker. This distinction also reflects Hephaestus’s wider mythological role as Olympus’s master artisan.