In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what event immediately precedes Pandora’s creation?

In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Prometheus’s theft of fire immediately precedes Pandora’s creation.

Prometheus takes fire and gives it to humans, an act that angers Zeus. Zeus responds by ordering the gods to make a woman whose arrival will bring a burden or punishment to humanity. Pandora’s creation is therefore part of the same mythic sequence as the theft of fire, rather than an isolated origin story.

The passage explains human suffering through divine retaliation. Hesiod’s narrative also presents Pandora as richly adorned and equipped with qualities supplied by the gods, making her name “All-gifted” especially relevant.

The story is sometimes blended with other Prometheus traditions, including later accounts in which Prometheus creates humans or repeatedly deceives Zeus. Hesiod’s Pandora episode specifically uses the theft of fire as its immediate trigger. It is also important that Works and Days is a didactic poem about labor, justice, and human life, not simply a collection of unrelated myths.