In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, which deity gives Pandora a golden crown?

In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Hephaestus gives Pandora a golden crown.

Works and Days describes Pandora as being fashioned from earth at Zeus’s command. The gods contribute different gifts to her creation and adornment. Hephaestus, the divine smith, shapes her and places a shining golden crown on her head.

This detail belongs to Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s creation, where the gods’ contributions help explain both her beauty and her dangerous persuasive power. Other deities provide clothing, ornaments, or personal qualities, so the myth is a collaborative divine construction rather than the work of one god alone.

Hephaestus is often identified by his Roman name, Vulcan, in later traditions. That Roman equivalent is not the name used in Hesiod’s Greek poem, which is why “Hephaestus” is the canonical answer here.