The Greek name of the figure known in English as Pandora is Pandora.
Her name is commonly explained from Greek elements meaning “all-gifted” or “all-giving.” In Hesiod’s account, different gods contribute qualities or gifts to the woman created at Zeus’s command, which connects the name with the story’s divine gift-giving.
Pandora appears most fully in Hesiod’s Works and Days and is also mentioned in the Theogony. The two poems do not provide identical amounts of narrative detail, so later retellings often combine material from both.
Pandora is frequently described as the first woman in Greek mythology, but that label belongs to the mythic tradition rather than to historical evidence. Her story is closely tied to the myth of Prometheus, fire, and Zeus’s punishment of humanity.