Pandora first appears in surviving Greek literature in Hesiod’s Theogony. The poem includes a brief account of her creation as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus challenged the divine order.
Hesiod later gives a fuller version in Works and Days. That second poem supplies the better-known details: the gods’ gifts to Pandora, her marriage to Epimetheus, and the opening of the storage jar. Because Works and Days contains the more developed narrative, it is often the text people remember when discussing Pandora.
The Theogony is primarily a genealogy and origin poem about the gods, so Pandora’s appearance there is comparatively short. The distinction matters: Theogony provides the earlier surviving literary reference, while Works and Days expands the episode into the influential story that shaped later retellings.