In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Hermes gave Pandora her distinctive voice.
Hesiod describes Pandora as a woman fashioned by the gods at Zeus’s command. Different deities contribute different qualities or adornments to her creation. Hermes, the messenger god, gives her a voice and a character associated with deceptive or persuasive speech. This detail appears in Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s creation rather than in the later shortened expression “Pandora’s box.”
The myth is often retold in simplified form, so readers may remember only that several gods contributed gifts. The exact assignments matter: Hephaestus makes her from earth, Athena dresses and teaches her, and Aphrodite gives her charm. Hermes is not the god who made the vessel, and he is not the deity who sends the evils into the world. Those roles are often blurred in modern summaries of the myth.