Ovid linked Pandora’s myth to the creation of women in Metamorphoses.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem completed around 8 CE. It retells a vast sequence of Greek and Roman myths, but it does not reproduce every Greek story in exactly the same form. Ovid’s treatment of human origins and the early ages of humanity helped shape later European ideas about classical mythology.
The most detailed surviving Pandora account is still associated with Hesiod, not Ovid. Ovid’s importance lies in the broader Roman literary tradition that carried Greek myths into Latin poetry and later European education, art, and literature. His work became a major source for medieval and Renaissance artists.
Virgil and Horace were also major Roman poets, but neither is the canonical answer to the question of which Roman poet wrote Metamorphoses. Ovid’s other famous works include Amores, Ars Amatoria, and the exile poems Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto.