Hesiod first told the surviving Greek myth of Pandora’s creation and jar.
The story appears in two Hesiodic poems: the Theogony and Works and Days. The Works and Days gives the fuller narrative, connecting Pandora with Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus obtained fire for mortals. The Theogony also refers to the woman and the human troubles associated with her.
Hesiod was a Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. He is traditionally associated with Boeotia, although details of his life are uncertain. His poems are among the earliest surviving works of Greek literature.
Homer is often incorrectly named because both poets belong to Greece’s early archaic literary tradition. However, the surviving Pandora narrative is specifically associated with Hesiod, not with the Homeric epics.