Hesiod wrote the earliest surviving full account of Pandora's Box in ancient Greek literature.
The story appears in Hesiod's Works and Days, a didactic poem generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Hesiod describes Pandora's creation, her marriage or union with Epimetheus, the sealed container, and the release of evils into the human world. His account is the main literary foundation for later versions.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, although the Works and Days passage gives the fuller narrative. These poems are among the oldest surviving works of Greek literature and are important sources for Greek ideas about gods, labor, justice and human origins.
Homer is another major early Greek poet, but the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the full Pandora story. Sophocles belongs to the later classical dramatic tradition, while Aristotle was a philosopher rather than the myth's earliest literary source. Dating ancient texts is not always exact, yet Hesiod's authorship and priority for the surviving account are firmly established.