Hesiod wrote the Pandora myth in his poem Works and Days.
Hesiod was an early Greek poet traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days is a didactic poem concerned with work, justice, farming, seafaring, and the difficulties of human life. The Pandora episode appears within that broader discussion of why suffering and labor exist.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, where the story is connected with Prometheus, fire, and Zeus. The two poems provide related but not identical details, which is why later summaries may combine elements from both works.
Homer is another major early Greek poet, but the Pandora story is not chiefly associated with the Homeric epics. Hesiod’s version is the key literary source behind the familiar account of the jar and the release of evils.