In Hesiod’s account of Pandora, Hermes carries her to Epimetheus.
After the gods create and equip Pandora, Zeus sends her to Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus. Hermes serves as the divine messenger who conducts her to him. The episode explains how Pandora arrives as a seemingly valuable gift despite Prometheus’s warning that Epimetheus should not accept gifts from Zeus.
Epimetheus ignores the warning and accepts Pandora. In the myth’s broader moral structure, this decision helps bring suffering to humanity. Pandora is not described as independently traveling from the gods’ realm; her delivery is part of Zeus’s deliberate plan.
This detail is easy to confuse with Hermes’s other role in the story. He also gives Pandora troubling mental qualities, including a deceptive mind, in Hesiod’s description. Hephaestus creates her body, but Hermes is the god who escorts or brings her to Epimetheus.