In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Hermes escorted Pandora to Epimetheus.
After the gods prepared Pandora, Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, the Titan associated with afterthought. Hermes served as the divine messenger and guide in this episode, bringing Pandora to the human world and to Prometheus’s brother.
The detail matters because Pandora’s arrival is presented as part of Zeus’s deliberate response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. Epimetheus had been warned by Prometheus not to accept gifts from Zeus, but he accepted Pandora anyway. Hesiod uses that decision to connect divine deception with human suffering.
Hermes is sometimes named incorrectly because Hephaestus creates Pandora and the other gods decorate or equip her. Those are separate roles. Hermes’s function here is delivery and escort, not fashioning Pandora or opening the vessel.