Hesiod first records Pandora’s creation in a surviving literary work. His Works and Days contains the earliest surviving full account of Pandora’s origin, her divine preparation, and the spreading of troubles after the container is opened.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days is a didactic poem concerned with farming, justice, work, and the consequences of human behavior. The Pandora episode appears within that broader discussion of why life contains hardship.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but the detailed creation narrative is associated especially with Works and Days. The two poems are important sources for distinguishing early Greek myth from later artistic and literary expansions.
Homer is the most common wrong answer because he is the other major early Greek epic poet. However, the surviving Homeric epics do not provide the foundational Pandora creation narrative preserved by Hesiod.