In Hesiod’s account of Pandora, which god fashioned her physical form?

In Hesiod’s account of Pandora, Hephaestus fashioned her physical form.

Hephaestus was the Greek god associated with fire, metalworking, smiths, and craftsmanship. Zeus ordered him to create Pandora as part of the punishment of humanity after Prometheus gave humans fire. The crafting episode presents Pandora as a deliberately constructed figure rather than a person born through an ordinary human lineage.

Other gods contribute to her presentation in the myth. Athena is associated with teaching her crafts and clothing her, while Aphrodite contributes beauty and Hermes gives her characteristics connected with speech and deception in later summaries. Hephaestus’s role is specifically the making of her body or form.

Modern retellings sometimes say that Zeus himself “created” Pandora. That is broadly understandable because Zeus commands the project, but the specific craftsman named in Hesiod is Hephaestus. The distinction matters because the myth distributes Pandora’s attributes among several gods while placing the physical act of fashioning her with the divine smith.