Hesiod describes Pandora’s creation in the poem Theogony. Hesiod is one of the earliest known Greek poets and is traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE.
The Theogony is primarily a genealogical account of the gods, tracing divine generations and the rise of Zeus. Its brief reference to Pandora is not as detailed as the account in Hesiod’s Works and Days, which gives the fuller narrative of her creation and the jar.
Hesiod is therefore the key ancient literary source for the Pandora myth. Homer is another foundational Greek poet, but the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the complete Pandora story. Ovid, a Roman poet writing centuries later, belongs to a different literary tradition.
Because both Hesiodic poems are relevant, summaries sometimes cite “Hesiod” without naming the work. The distinction matters: Theogony mentions Pandora, while Works and Days develops the myth in greater detail.