In which ancient Greek poem does Hesiod tell the Pandora creation story most fully?

Hesiod tells the Pandora creation story most fully in his ancient Greek poem Works and Days. The poem includes the account of Zeus ordering Pandora’s creation and her arrival among humanity.

Works and Days is a didactic poem concerned with justice, labor, farming, and proper conduct. Hesiod introduces Pandora while explaining why human life contains suffering and hardship. Her story follows the theft of fire by Prometheus and Zeus’s punishment of humanity.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora-related material in Theogony, but Works and Days supplies the longer narrative. The two poems are among the earliest surviving Greek literary works and are traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE.

A common mistake is to assume that the story comes from Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey. Pandora does not play a central role in either Homeric epic; the fullest surviving account is associated with Hesiod’s Works and Days.