In Hesiod’s Theogony, which deity helps shape Pandora from earth?

In Hesiod’s Theogony, Hephaestus helps shape Pandora from earth.

Hephaestus is the Olympian god of fire, metalworking, craft, and smithing. The Theogony describes Zeus ordering him to form a woman from earth as part of the punishment connected with Prometheus and humanity. This makes Pandora a crafted, divinely assembled figure rather than a naturally born character in the myth.

The Works and Days provides more detail about the gifts and qualities supplied by the other gods. Athena teaches or dresses Pandora, Aphrodite gives her charm, and Hermes contributes a deceptive character in the poem’s account. The exact wording and role of each deity vary between translations.

The association with Hephaestus is especially fitting because the story uses artistic manufacture as a metaphor for divine design. Later artwork commonly depicts Pandora being created or animated, but the earliest literary account remains Hesiod’s description of a god-made woman sent into the human world.