Hesiod wrote Works and Days, the earliest detailed Pandora account.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days is a didactic poem about farming, justice, labor, and human life, and it includes the story of Pandora as an explanation for the troubles affecting humanity.
Hesiod also told a version of the story in the Theogony, although the account in Works and Days provides the fuller narrative of Pandora's creation and the opening of the vessel. These poems are among the most important surviving sources for early Greek mythology.
Hesiod is often discussed alongside Homer, but they are associated with different kinds of poetry. Homer is linked with epic poems such as the Iliad and Odyssey, while Hesiod's surviving works are more openly instructional and genealogical. Dates for both poets remain debated, but Hesiod's works are securely placed in the early archaic period.