Hesiod is credited with first recording the Pandora myth in surviving literature.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His Works and Days contains the detailed account of Pandora, while Theogony includes related material about her creation and role among the gods.
Homer is often named alongside Hesiod when people discuss the earliest Greek literature, but the surviving Homeric epics do not contain the familiar Pandora episode. Sappho and Pindar lived later and are not the source of the canonical myth.
Because the stories circulated orally, Hesiod should be understood as the earliest surviving literary recorder rather than necessarily the inventor of every element. His version became the main textual foundation for later Greek, Roman, and European retellings.