Hesiod wrote the best-known Pandora story in his poem Works and Days.
Hesiod was an early Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days is a didactic poem that discusses farming, justice, labor, morality, and the difficulties of human life. The Pandora episode appears within that wider explanation of why suffering and work exist in the human condition.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but Works and Days gives the more developed account of her creation and the opening of the container. The two poems are important sources for early Greek ideas about gods, Titans, humanity, and the origins of hardship.
Homer is a frequent wrong answer because he is the other famous early Greek poet, but the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the best-known Pandora narrative. Modern versions often blend Hesiod’s details with later art, translations, and folklore.