Hesiod describes Pandora as the first woman in the human world.
Hesiod, an early Greek poet traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, tells Pandora’s story in Works and Days and also refers to her in the Theogony. His account makes her creation part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire.
The phrase “first woman” is a feature of the Hesiodic tradition. It places Pandora at the beginning of a mythic explanation for human suffering, marriage, labor, and the separation between gods and mortals. Other ancient cultures have different first-woman figures, so the answer belongs specifically to Greek mythology.
Homer is a common wrong answer because he is another famous early Greek poet, but the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the standard Pandora creation narrative. Hesiod is the source most directly associated with it.