Hesiod first recorded Pandora’s story in the poem Theogony.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BC. In Theogony, he describes the creation of the first woman and identifies her as Pandora. The account is brief compared with the more developed narrative in his other surviving poem, Works and Days.
Theogony is primarily a genealogy and origin story of the gods. It traces divine generations from primordial beings through the Olympians and explains major conflicts such as Zeus’s struggle with the Titans. Pandora appears within this mythic history as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus and humanity.
Hesiod’s works are among the earliest surviving Greek literary texts. Homer is often mentioned alongside him as another foundational poet, but Homer’s surviving epics do not provide the fullest Pandora narrative. That distinction belongs to Hesiod’s Works and Days.