Hesiod is traditionally credited with both major early accounts of Pandora’s myth. His poems Works and Days and Theogony preserve related versions of the story, although they differ in detail and emphasis.
Works and Days gives the fuller narrative: Zeus responds to Prometheus’s theft of fire by having the gods create Pandora, and the opening of her vessel becomes an explanation for human suffering. Theogony refers more briefly to the creation of woman and the consequences of the divine plan.
Hesiod is usually placed in the early archaic period of Greek literature, around the same broad era as Homer. Unlike Homeric epic, his surviving works focus heavily on labor, justice, farming, genealogy, and relations between gods and mortals.
The attribution is traditional rather than supported by modern biographical records. Ancient sources treated Hesiod as an identifiable poet, but the exact details of his life remain uncertain. Sophocles and Aristophanes were much later Athenian dramatists, not the early source of Pandora’s myth.