In Hesiod’s account, which god shaped Pandora from earth?

In Hesiod’s account, Hephaestus shaped Pandora from earth. Zeus commands the divine craftsman to form the first woman as part of a punishment directed at humanity after Prometheus’s theft of fire.

Hephaestus is the Olympian smith and maker of divine objects, so his role is that of an artisan. The story describes Pandora as being fashioned from earth, after which other gods add qualities that complete her appearance and character.

This detail distinguishes Pandora’s creation from the creation myths in which a single deity makes a human being directly. Hesiod presents a collaborative divine construction, with Hephaestus providing the physical form and other gods supplying adornments, speech, charm, and deceit.

Later retellings sometimes call Pandora a goddess, but Hesiod presents her as the first woman created by the gods. Her origin from earth also parallels broader Greek ideas about humans being formed from earthly material.