Hesiod described Pandora as the first woman in his poem Works and Days.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet usually dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days contains the best-known early literary account of Pandora’s creation, her gifts from the gods, her marriage, and the opening of the vessel.
The poem presents Pandora within a moral and agricultural work about justice, labor, and human life. Her story explains why suffering exists among mortals and follows the earlier conflict between Zeus and Prometheus.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but Works and Days gives the more extended narrative. Homer does not provide the surviving literary version of the Pandora story, and later writers substantially reshaped its meaning and details.