Hesiod is the ancient Greek poet who gives Pandora the name used in the myth.
Pandora appears in two surviving works associated with Hesiod: the Theogony and Works and Days. The Theogony describes the creation of woman in connection with Zeus’s punishment, while Works and Days supplies the fuller narrative of Pandora, her gifts, her marriage to Epimetheus, and the jar’s opening.
Homer does not provide the familiar Pandora story in the surviving Homeric epics. Sappho and Pindar were also major Greek poets, but they are not the source of the canonical account of Pandora’s creation.
Hesiod probably lived around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Because the poems survive through later manuscript transmission, scholars distinguish what the texts say from details added by later art, literature, and popular retellings.