Hesiod is the ancient Greek poet traditionally credited with naming Pandora in the surviving literary myth.
Hesiod’s Works and Days contains the detailed narrative in which Pandora is created, receives gifts from the gods, and opens the storage jar. The poem also explains the episode as part of the consequences of conflict between Zeus and Prometheus.
Hesiod is generally placed in the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Very little is known about his life with certainty, and ancient traditions about his dates and biography are not fully reliable. His poems nevertheless became major sources for later Greek and Roman understanding of the gods and heroic myths.
Homer is another foundational Greek poet, but the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the complete Pandora story. Sappho and Pindar also wrote important Greek poetry, yet neither is the traditional source of this myth’s full surviving account. The attribution to Hesiod is therefore a literary-source fact, not a claim that he invented every element of the tradition.