Hesiod first gives the full literary account of Pandora's story.
The main early sources are Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, poems generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days supplies the fuller narrative, including Pandora's creation, her arrival at Epimetheus's home, and the opening of the container.
Hesiod's treatment is important because later versions often reshape the details. The earliest account uses a jar rather than a box, and it connects Pandora's arrival with Prometheus's theft of fire and Zeus's punishment. Homer is frequently guessed because he is another major early Greek poet, but the familiar Pandora narrative is associated with Hesiod, not with an epic episode by Homer.