In Greek mythology, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to make a woman before Pandora’s creation.
Hesiod’s Works and Days describes Zeus instructing Hephaestus, the divine craftsman, to shape a figure from earth. Other gods then contributed abilities or adornments, creating Pandora as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. The story presents her creation as a coordinated act by the Olympian gods rather than as the work of one deity alone.
The woman was later given the name Pandora and sent to Epimetheus. The myth’s sequence matters: Zeus first commands the crafted figure, the gods embellish or instruct her, and only afterward does Pandora enter the human world.
This detail is distinct from the question of who fashioned Pandora’s body. Hephaestus performs the craftsmanship, but Zeus gives the command, making the two roles easy to confuse.