In Hesiod’s Theogony, Hermes is credited with giving Pandora her voice. The poem describes the gods contributing different qualities as Zeus orders the creation of the first woman.
Hephaestus shapes Pandora from earth, while Athena gives her instruction in handicrafts and clothes her. Aphrodite contributes grace and desire, and Hermes gives her a deceptive or deceitful mind and a voice. These details make Pandora a constructed figure whose qualities are assembled by the gods.
The Theogony’s account is brief compared with the fuller narrative in Works and Days. It does not provide the complete sequence of events surrounding the jar’s opening in the same way. This difference is one reason the two poems are often studied together.
Hermes is the messenger god, but in this passage his contribution is specifically associated with speech and guile. Later retellings often simplify the list of divine gifts and omit this precise attribution.