Hesiod wrote the earliest surviving account of Pandora in Works and Days.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His Works and Days presents Pandora’s creation and the release of evils into the world as part of a larger story about Zeus, Prometheus, and humanity.
The Pandora episode also appears in Hesiod’s Theogony, although Works and Days gives the fuller narrative. These poems are among the principal surviving sources for early Greek mythology, so later retellings often derive from them rather than from a single lost “Pandora myth.”
A common mix-up is attributing the story to Homer. Homer’s epics do not provide the surviving foundational account of Pandora. Later Roman and European writers reshaped the story, but Hesiod remains its earliest known literary source.