Hesiod first recorded the creation of Pandora and the jar story in his poem Works and Days.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days is a didactic poem concerned with justice, labor, farming, and the difficult conditions of human life. The Pandora episode appears within that broader discussion rather than as a separate fairy tale.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in Theogony, but the two poems do not provide identical versions of the story. Works and Days gives the fuller account of her creation, the gifts she receives, and the opening of the jar. Theogony is more focused on divine genealogy and the consequences of women and marriage in Hesiod’s mythic framework.
Homer is a frequent wrong answer because he is another major early Greek poet. However, the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the canonical Pandora narrative. Later Greek and Roman authors, artists, and translators helped spread and reshape the story.