In Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s creation, Hermes gives her a deceptive mind. This detail appears in Works and Days, the earliest surviving literary version of the Pandora story.
Hesiod presents Pandora as a coordinated work of the Olympian gods. Zeus orders Hephaestus to make her, while other deities contribute physical beauty, clothing, speech, and social qualities. Hermes’ contribution is associated with a mind described as deceptive, along with a shameless or tricky character in translations of the Greek text.
This assignment is often confused with Hermes’ broader mythological role as a messenger and trickster. Hesiod’s wording is not a modern personality profile; it is part of a poem explaining why human suffering and difficult labor entered the world. Later retellings frequently compress all the divine gifts into the phrase “Pandora’s gifts,” leaving out which deity supplied each one.