In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Aphrodite gave Pandora beauty and made her desirable.
The account in Works and Days describes Pandora as receiving a series of divine gifts before being sent to humanity. Aphrodite, the goddess of love and physical attraction, contributes beauty and desirability. This role fits the poem’s larger explanation of why Pandora is both alluring and dangerous: her appearance draws attention, while the divine qualities placed within her make her difficult to resist.
Aphrodite is not presented as Pandora’s creator. Hesiod assigns the shaping of her body to Hephaestus and gives clothing and weaving to Athena. Other gods contribute speech, adornment, and character. The myth’s title figure is therefore a “many-gifted” woman rather than a being made by one deity alone.
Later retellings sometimes treat Pandora as an intentional copy of a single goddess, but that is not Hesiod’s structure. Aphrodite’s contribution is one part of a coordinated divine design connected with Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus’s theft of fire.