Hesiod wrote the earliest surviving literary version of the Pandora myth in Works and Days.
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet who probably lived in the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. His Works and Days presents Pandora as part of a story explaining why human life includes hardship. The related account in his Theogony is shorter and differs in some details.
The myth is therefore associated primarily with Hesiod, not Homer. No surviving Homeric poem tells the Pandora story in the form familiar today. Later Greek and Roman writers adapted ideas about Pandora, her container, and the release of evils, but Hesiod provides the foundational literary accounts.
The title Works and Days also matters because the poem is not simply a collection of myths. It combines advice about farming, justice, work, and religious customs. Pandora appears within that wider moral and cultural discussion.