Hermes gave Pandora her voice and taught her deceptive speech in Greek myth.
Hesiod describes Pandora as receiving qualities from the gods who create her. Hermes, Zeus’s messenger, is associated with giving her speech and a deceptive or misleading character. This role fits the myth’s presentation of Pandora as a carefully assembled divine instrument rather than an ordinary human born through natural parentage.
Hermes has a broad portfolio in Greek mythology. He is a messenger, guide, patron of travelers and merchants, and a figure associated with cleverness and trickery. Those associations help explain why later readers connect him with Pandora’s persuasive or deceptive speech.
The details are found in the account surrounding Pandora’s creation, especially in Hesiod’s Theogony. Different translations phrase Hermes’s contribution differently, using terms such as “a shameless mind” or “a deceitful nature.” The stable point is that Hermes gives speech and a deceptive quality; he is not the god who physically crafts Pandora’s body.