In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Hermes gave Pandora a deceptive nature.
Hermes was the Greek god associated with communication, travel, commerce, boundaries, and cunning. In Hesiod’s description of Pandora’s creation, Zeus instructs Hermes to give her a shameless mind and a deceitful character. This forms part of the divine construction of Pandora as an instrument of Zeus’s punishment.
The myth does not describe Pandora as an ordinary individual whose personality develops independently. Instead, her qualities are assigned by the gods. Her beauty, skill, speech, and deceptive tendencies are presented as elements of a deliberate divine design.
Later retellings often reduce Hermes’s contribution to simply giving Pandora speech, or they portray Pandora as solely responsible for the world’s suffering. Hesiod’s account is more specific: the gods collectively create and equip her, while Zeus directs the plan. Hermes’s role is therefore one detail within a larger act of divine agency.