In Hesiod’s account, the poet who first recorded the myth of Pandora was Hesiod.
Hesiod was an early Greek poet traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His Works and Days contains the best-known early literary account of Pandora, while his Theogony also discusses the consequences of Prometheus’s conflict with Zeus.
Hesiod’s version presents Pandora as part of Zeus’s punishment after Prometheus gave fire to humans. It explains the origin of suffering through the opening of the container and also describes Pandora as the first woman. His treatment is therefore more than a short adventure story: it connects mythology with Greek ideas about work, hardship, marriage, and the human condition.
Homer is a frequent wrong answer because he is the other major early Greek epic poet. However, the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the famous Pandora narrative. Ovid and Virgil wrote in Latin centuries later and are not the earliest source for this myth.