Hesiod told Pandora’s creation story in his poem Works and Days. The poem presents Pandora as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus stole fire for mortals.
Hesiod’s account is one of the earliest surviving written versions of the myth. He describes the gods giving Pandora different gifts and sending her to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother. When Pandora opens the container, troubles escape into the world, while hope remains inside.
The story is also discussed in Hesiod’s Theogony, although Works and Days provides the fuller narrative. Hesiod lived in the archaic Greek period, usually dated to around the eighth or seventh century BCE.
A common mix-up is attributing every Greek myth to Homer. Homer is associated mainly with the Iliad and Odyssey; Hesiod is the key early source for the Pandora story.