In Hesiod's account of Pandora, the first woman is called Pandora. She is introduced as a deliberately created figure in the Greek myth explaining how suffering entered human life.
The name Pandora is connected with the gifts supplied by the gods who participate in her creation. Hesiod's Works and Days describes her as a beautiful woman whose arrival forms part of Zeus's punishment of humanity after Prometheus obtained fire for mortals.
Pandora is sometimes confused with other famous women in Greek mythology, especially Pyrrha, who belongs to the flood story involving Deucalion. Pandora is also not simply a later name for Eve; the two figures come from different religious and literary traditions. The modern expression “Pandora's box” comes from later translations and retellings, while the earliest Greek version refers to a storage vessel rather than using the familiar English phrase.