In Greek mythology, who fashioned Pandora’s body from clay?

In Greek mythology, Hephaestus fashioned Pandora’s body from clay.

Hesiod describes Zeus ordering Hephaestus, the divine smith, to make Pandora from earth. Hephaestus was the god of metalworking, fire, craftsmanship, and invention, so his role fits the image of a deity constructing a human-like figure. Other gods then supplied additional qualities, clothing, beauty, and behavior.

This creation scene is one of the myth’s important parallels with later stories about artificial or fashioned humans. Pandora is not born to human parents in Hesiod’s account. She is deliberately assembled by the gods as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire and the advantages that theft gave humanity.

Hephaestus’s role is sometimes confused with Prometheus’s because both figures are associated with fire and human creation in Greek mythology. Prometheus helps humanity by stealing fire, while Hephaestus creates Pandora under Zeus’s command. Their actions have opposite positions in the story’s moral structure.