The earliest surviving Greek account of Pandora in Works and Days was written by Hesiod.
Hesiod was an early Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His Works and Days is a didactic poem about farming, justice, labor, and human hardship, and it contains the best-known early account of Pandora’s creation and the opening of her vessel.
Hesiod also discusses Pandora in the Theogony, although the two poems do not provide identical details. Works and Days gives the fullest narrative sequence: Zeus orders Pandora’s creation, the gods contribute qualities or gifts, and she becomes connected with the release of evils into human life. Homer is a different early Greek poet and does not provide the source for this famous episode. Ovid, writing in Latin centuries later, belongs to a later mythological tradition.