Hesiod is the ancient Greek poet who first gives Pandora her name in a surviving literary work. His poem Works and Days, generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, provides the fullest early account of her creation and arrival among humans.
Hesiod also mentions a woman connected with the myth in Theogony, but that earlier passage does not name her Pandora. In Works and Days, she is explicitly named Pandora and is described as receiving gifts from the gods before being sent to Epimetheus. The poem links her arrival with the origins of human suffering and the loss of an earlier condition of ease.
Homer does not provide the familiar Pandora story in the surviving Homeric epics. Later Greek and Roman authors, artists, and translators expanded or reshaped the narrative. The name therefore belongs securely to Hesiod’s literary tradition, even though the myth’s themes—divine punishment, fire, women, and the condition of mortals—connect with wider archaic Greek ideas.