In Greek mythology, Hesiod names the first woman Pandora in Works and Days. Hesiod was an early Greek poet traditionally dated to around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, and his poem is the principal ancient source for Pandora’s creation and the opening of her container.
Works and Days presents the story as part of an explanation for why human life contains toil and suffering. Zeus orders the creation of Pandora after Prometheus’s theft of fire for humanity. The gods provide her with qualities and adornments, and she is sent to Epimetheus.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but the fuller narrative is found in Works and Days. The two poems are important because they preserve different details and emphases from early Greek myth.
Homer is a common wrong answer because he is the other famous early Greek poet, but the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the standard Pandora story. Sappho and Pindar belong to later poetic traditions and are not the source of this account.