In Hesiod’s Pandora story, the messenger god Hermes led Pandora to Epimetheus.
The detail appears in Works and Days, where Zeus orders the gods to prepare Pandora and send her to humanity. Hermes, the Olympian messenger, is the deity who conducts her to Epimetheus. This role fits Hermes’ wider mythological functions as a herald, guide, traveler, and intermediary between divine and mortal worlds.
Hesiod’s account gives Hermes additional responsibilities in shaping Pandora’s character. The god is associated with giving her a deceptive or shameless mind and a lying tongue, depending on the translation. Translators differ in wording because they are rendering archaic Greek poetry rather than a modern prose narrative.
A common mix-up is to identify Zeus as the god who physically escorts Pandora. Zeus initiates the plan, but Hermes performs the journey to Epimetheus in the surviving poetic account.