Hesiod gives the fullest surviving early literary account of Pandora. His poem Works and Days describes her creation, the gods’ gifts, her arrival among humans, and the opening of the storage jar.
Hesiod was an archaic Greek poet generally dated to around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His account is important because it connects Pandora with the origins of human suffering, labor, and the separation between gods and mortals.
Pandora also appears in Hesiod’s Theogony, though the narrative emphasis differs. Works and Days provides the more developed story familiar to later readers. The poem presents the myth after Prometheus’s theft of fire, making Pandora part of Zeus’s retaliation.
Homer does not provide the same complete Pandora narrative in the surviving epics. That is why Hesiod, rather than Homer, is the standard answer when asking who first records the myth in substantial detail. Later writers, artists, translators, and filmmakers adapted the story in many different forms.