In the Greek Pandora myth, Hesiod presents Pandora as the first woman.
Hesiod tells the story in two surviving works, Theogony and Works and Days. His account describes Pandora as a specially made woman sent to Epimetheus after Prometheus’s theft of fire. Through her arrival and the opening of the vessel, the myth explains the presence of suffering among humans.
The phrase “first woman” belongs to Hesiod’s formulation and is often compared with other cultures’ origin stories involving a first woman. Homer does not provide the detailed Pandora narrative commonly associated with the myth, while Ovid and Virgil belong to Roman literary tradition and are not the source of this Greek account. The story’s exact details differ between Hesiod’s poems, so broad modern summaries should be checked against the specific ancient text.