In Hesiod’s Pandora story, Hermes escorted Pandora to humanity after her creation. Hermes is the Olympian messenger and the god associated with travel, boundaries, trade, and cunning communication.
Hesiod’s account assigns Hermes an important final role in the divine plan. After Pandora has been formed and equipped by the gods, Zeus sends her to Epimetheus. Hermes conveys her to him and gives her qualities connected with speech, persuasion, and deception, reinforcing the story’s warning about appearances and hidden danger.
Hermes is sometimes confused with the god who physically made Pandora, but that task belongs to Hephaestus. He is also not Pandora’s husband; Epimetheus occupies that role in the myth. Hermes’s function is as messenger and escort, bringing Zeus’s creation from the divine sphere into the human world.