Hesiod wrote the earliest surviving account in which Pandora’s jar releases troubles into the human world.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His Works and Days contains the best-known early narrative of Pandora, while his Theogony also describes her creation and the punishment connected with Prometheus. In Works and Days, Pandora opens a storage jar and releases the evils or troubles that affect humanity.
The poem presents the story as part of an explanation for why human life includes suffering and difficult labor. Hesiod’s account is therefore both mythological and moralizing. It is not a later novelist’s invention, although later writers, artists, and translators greatly expanded the story’s cultural reach.
Homer is a common wrong answer because he is the other famous archaic Greek poet. The surviving Homeric epics do not provide the canonical Pandora narrative; Hesiod is the poet directly associated with it.