Hesiod wrote the earliest surviving version of the Pandora myth in Works and Days.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days is a didactic poem combining farming advice, moral instruction, myths, and reflections on justice. Its account of Pandora explains why suffering exists among humans.
Hesiod also presents related myths in Theogony, including the divine succession from Uranus to Cronus and Zeus. The Pandora episode in Works and Days is the fuller narrative: the gods create a woman, give her gifts, and Zeus uses her story as part of humanity’s punishment.
Homer is sometimes confused with Hesiod because both are foundational Greek poets, but the surviving Pandora account is associated with Hesiod. Sophocles was a much later dramatist, while Aristotle was a philosopher and scientist rather than the author of Works and Days.