Hesiod is the Greek poet who first used the name Pandora in a surviving written myth. His works, especially Theogony and Works and Days, provide the earliest surviving literary accounts of Pandora’s creation and her container.
Hesiod probably composed these poems in the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. In Works and Days, Pandora appears in a story explaining why human life includes labor, disease, and other hardships. The poem connects her arrival with Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire.
Homer is earlier or roughly contemporary in the broad history of Greek epic, but the surviving Homeric poems do not provide the Pandora account. Ovid, writing in Latin many centuries later, is also not the earliest source for the myth. Aristophanes belongs to classical Athenian comedy and does not originate the story.
The word “first” here means the earliest surviving written literary source, not necessarily the first person to tell the story orally. Myths circulated in oral traditions before they were recorded.