In Hesiod’s Theogony, Hermes gave Pandora a voice after her creation.
Pandora is introduced in Hesiod’s Theogony as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus stole fire. The gods contribute different qualities to the woman fashioned by Hephaestus, and Hermes gives her a voice and teaches her deceptive behavior. This detail belongs to Hesiod’s Theogony, an epic poem about the origins and genealogies of the gods.
The better-known account in Works and Days gives more attention to Pandora’s jar and the evils released from it. The two poems overlap but are not identical: the Theogony emphasizes the divine construction of Pandora, while Works and Days develops the story’s moral and economic consequences. Modern retellings often call her container a box, although the Greek word is more accurately translated as jar or storage vessel.