In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Hermes teaches Pandora to speak.
Pandora is assembled through the contributions of several gods. Hephaestus forms her body from earth, while other deities provide abilities and adornments. Hermes gives her a voice and is also associated with qualities of persuasion, deceit, and cunning in the account.
This detail helps explain why Pandora is described as a divinely made woman rather than as an ordinary human born through a family lineage. Her construction is a coordinated act ordered by Zeus, carried out as retaliation for Prometheus’s theft of fire.
Hermes is the messenger god, but his mythological role is broader than carrying messages. He is also connected with boundaries, trade, cleverness, and trickery. The Pandora episode uses those associations to make her speech part of the gods’ deliberately deceptive gift.