In Hesiod’s Pandora story, Zeus ordered Pandora’s creation as a punishment for humanity.
The myth links Pandora’s arrival to Prometheus’s theft of fire for humans. Zeus responds by arranging a counter-gift that will bring suffering to mortals. He instructs the gods to create Pandora, whose name is commonly understood as “all-gifted” or “all-giving.”
Hesiod presents Zeus as the chief divine authority directing the episode, although several other gods contribute particular qualities, skills, and adornments. This is why answers naming a different Olympian can seem plausible: the creation is a collective divine project, but Zeus is the deity who initiates it.
The episode belongs to Hesiod’s Works and Days and is part of a broader Greek explanation for why human life contains hardship. It is distinct from later retellings that make Pandora a simple villain; Hesiod’s account is more closely tied to divine punishment and the limits placed on humanity.