Ovid retold the Pandora story in his Roman epic Metamorphoses.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived from 43 BCE to 17 or 18 CE. Metamorphoses is a fifteen-book poem in Latin that links many Greek and Roman myths through stories of transformation. Ovid’s work became one of the most influential classical sources for later European literature and art.
Ovid’s account presents Pandora within a wider chain of myths about humanity, divine punishment, and the changing condition of the world. His version is part of the later Roman literary tradition, while Hesiod’s Works and Days is the major early Greek source for the myth.
The names of Roman poets can be confused because Virgil, Horace, and Ovid were all major authors of the Augustan age. Metamorphoses, however, is specifically Ovid’s poem. It is not the same work as Virgil’s Aeneid or Horace’s Odes.