In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Hephaestus created Pandora from earth at Zeus’s command. Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and metalworking, shapes her body as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire.
Pandora is not made by Hephaestus alone in the wider story. Other gods give her attributes: Athena teaches skills, Aphrodite grants charm, and Hermes gives her a deceptive or persuasive character. Hesiod’s Theogony also names Hermes in connection with her creation and describes her as a dangerous gift to men.
This detail is sometimes confused with the later idea that Pandora was simply the first woman. Hesiod presents her as a divinely constructed figure whose arrival introduces hardship. The myth’s emphasis is on coordinated divine craftsmanship, not on a single creator acting independently.