Hesiod first recorded Pandora’s creation in the poem Theogony.
Hesiod was a Greek poet who probably lived around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His Theogony presents a genealogical account of the gods and includes the punishment of humanity after Prometheus’s theft of fire. Pandora appears as part of Zeus’s response to that act.
Hesiod also retells the episode in Works and Days, where the story receives a fuller treatment. In that version, Pandora is fashioned by the gods and sent to Epimetheus with a container whose opening releases human suffering. The two poems are the earliest surviving literary sources for the myth.
Homer is a common wrong answer because he is the other major early Greek poet, but the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the standard creation story of Pandora. Hesiod’s accounts are therefore central to understanding the oldest written form of the myth.