Who fashioned Pandora’s body in the Greek myth of Pandora’s box?

In the Greek myth of Pandora’s box, Hephaestus fashioned Pandora’s body.

Hephaestus, the divine smith and craftsman, is ordered by Zeus to make Pandora from earth. The story presents her creation as an artificial construction shaped by a god, not as an ordinary human birth. After Hephaestus forms her, other gods add qualities and gifts that complete her presentation.

This detail appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days, where Pandora is created as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. The myth uses divine craftsmanship to explain how the first woman enters the human story and why she is associated with a coordinated act by the gods.

Hephaestus is sometimes confused with Prometheus because both figures are linked to fire and human culture. Their roles differ: Hephaestus makes Pandora, while Prometheus steals fire for humans and is punished by Zeus.