No specific deity gave Pandora curiosity or a desire to open the forbidden container in later retellings.
The familiar idea that curiosity directly drove Pandora is a later interpretive development, not a clearly assigned gift in Hesiod’s original account. Hesiod describes Pandora opening the vessel, but he does not identify a particular god as the source of a named “curiosity” trait that compels her action.
The ancient story focuses instead on divine construction, Zeus’s punishment, and the release of evils into human life. Later authors, artists, and translators increasingly portrayed Pandora as inquisitive, making curiosity the moral lesson most associated with the episode. That development helped produce the modern proverb about curiosity and forbidden knowledge.
This distinction matters because the myth’s detailed list of divine contributions is often treated as if it included every trait in later versions. No single Olympian is canonically credited in Hesiod with giving Pandora curiosity.