In Hesiod’s Theogony, who is named as Pandora’s father?

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In Hesiod’s Theogony, no father is named for Pandora.

Pandora is introduced there as the first woman, made by the gods at Zeus’s command. The poem focuses on her divine creation and on the consequences of Prometheus’s conflict with Zeus. Unlike a genealogical figure born to named parents, Pandora is presented as a constructed being formed through divine craftsmanship.

Hesiod’s Works and Days gives a fuller account of her arrival and the jar, but it likewise does not establish a human father for Pandora. Later traditions and modern retellings may place her in family trees or connect her with other mythological figures, yet those additions should not be confused with Hesiod’s account.

The question is difficult because Greek mythology contains several Pandoras and because modern stories often treat mythic characters as though they had ordinary human parentage. In the Hesiodic narrative, her defining origin is manufacture by the gods, not descent from a named father.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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