In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Hermes escorted Pandora to the human world.
Hermes was the Greek messenger god and a guide between different realms. In the account associated with Pandora, Zeus instructed Hermes to take her to Epimetheus after the other gods had helped create and adorn her. This action completed the plan that followed Prometheus’s theft of fire.
Hermes also contributed qualities to Pandora in Hesiod’s description. His name is connected with interpretation, messages, travel, trade, and boundary crossing, making him a fitting figure to deliver a divinely prepared person from the gods to humanity.
Retellings often focus on Hephaestus because he formed Pandora’s body, or on Zeus because he ordered the punishment. Hermes’s delivery role is consequently easy to overlook. It is nevertheless a specific part of the literary tradition surrounding the myth and helps distinguish the gods’ separate contributions.