Ovid used Pandora’s myth in his poem about the ages of humanity.
Ovid’s *Metamorphoses* includes a version of the story in which the arrival of Pandora is connected with the decline from the Golden Age. His Roman retelling belongs to a long tradition of adapting Greek myths for Latin audiences. Ovid’s work was completed in the early first century CE and became one of the most influential classical sources for later European artists and writers.
Ovid is sometimes confused with Hesiod because Hesiod supplied the earliest surviving full literary account of Pandora. Hesiod wrote in archaic Greece, while Ovid retold and reshaped myths in imperial Rome centuries later.
The title *Metamorphoses* means transformations, and the poem links numerous myths through changes of form. Pandora’s episode is therefore part of a broader narrative about humanity, divine actions, and the passage between mythic ages.