Hesiod tells the most detailed surviving version of Pandora’s creation myth.
The story appears especially in Hesiod’s Works and Days, a didactic poem about farming, justice, labor, and human existence. Hesiod connects Pandora’s creation with Prometheus’s theft of fire, presenting her arrival as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity. His account names the gods involved and explains the release of troubles from the vessel.
Pandora is also mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony, although that work gives less of the narrative detail associated with the container. Hesiod’s poems are therefore central sources for reconstructing the myth, even though the exact chronology of their composition and the poet’s historical identity remain subjects of classical scholarship.
Later Greek and Roman writers, artists, translators, and modern authors reshaped the story. Those later versions may alter details, but the basic literary foundation comes from Hesiod rather than Homer.