Hesiod is the ancient Greek poet traditionally credited with the Pandora myth in Works and Days.
Hesiod is usually placed alongside Homer among Greece’s earliest known poets. His surviving works include Works and Days and Theogony, although the authorship and date of ancient poems can involve scholarly debate. Works and Days provides the fullest early account of Pandora’s creation and the opening of her container.
Hesiod’s presentation is not a children’s adventure tale. It appears within arguments about work, justice, labor, and the difficult conditions of human life. The myth helps explain why people must labor and why suffering exists after an earlier divine order has been disrupted.
Homer is sometimes named by casual association because both poets belong to early Greek epic tradition, but the surviving Pandora episode is associated with Hesiod. The distinction is important when identifying the source of the myth.