In Hesiod’s Greek myth of Pandora’s Box, Hephaestus fashioned Pandora from clay. Zeus instructed the divine smith to create a woman as part of his punishment directed at humanity after Prometheus stole fire for mortals.
Hephaestus was the Olympian god associated with metalworking, fire, craftsmanship, and invention. In Hesiod’s account, he shaped Pandora’s body from earth, while other gods supplied qualities, clothing, ornaments, and skills. The story therefore presents Pandora as a coordinated divine creation rather than the work of a single god alone.
A common mix-up is attributing Pandora’s creation to Prometheus, because Prometheus is strongly associated with shaping or helping humanity in later traditions. Hesiod’s Pandora story specifically assigns the physical making of Pandora to Hephaestus. The myth appears most fully in Hesiod’s Works and Days, with a shorter related account in the Theogony.