Hyginus wrote a Latin version of the Pandora myth in Fabulae. Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Roman author traditionally credited with a collection of short mythological summaries, although details about the work’s authorship and transmission remain uncertain.
In Hyginus’s account, the first woman is called Pandora, and the story is connected with Prometheus, Epimetheus, and the punishment of humankind. His version shows how Greek myths were adapted into Latin literary culture rather than preserved in only one fixed wording.
Hyginus is not the author of the earliest surviving full literary account of Pandora; that role belongs to the Greek poet Hesiod. Fabulae is later and more compressed, presenting mythological material in a handbook-like form.
The Roman tradition also helped shape later European familiarity with Pandora. Readers encountered the myth through multiple ancient and Renaissance sources, which contributed to differences in names, objects, and narrative details between modern retellings.