Hermes gave Pandora her deceptive nature and brought her to Epimetheus in Hesiod’s account.
Hermes is the Olympian god associated with messages, travel, trade, boundaries, and cunning communication. His role suits the story’s emphasis on persuasion and misleading appearances. In Works and Days, Zeus instructs Hermes to give Pandora a shameless mind and a deceitful character, then to lead her to Epimetheus.
Other gods contribute different features to Pandora. Hephaestus fashions her from earth, Athena gives her skill and clothing, and Aphrodite provides beauty and desire in later summaries of the tradition. These details make Pandora a collective divine construction rather than the creation of one god alone.
Hermes’s involvement is sometimes omitted from simplified versions, which focus only on the jar. The ancient narrative, however, makes his delivery of Pandora an important link between Zeus’s plan and human society.