In which Hesiod poem does the detailed story of Pandora and her jar appear?

The detailed story of Pandora and her jar appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days.

Works and Days is an ancient Greek didactic poem that combines advice about farming, justice, work, and proper conduct with myths and stories. Its Pandora passage explains the arrival of hardship among humans after Prometheus gives fire to mortals and angers Zeus.

Hesiod also refers to Pandora in the Theogony, but Works and Days provides the narrative details that became central to later retellings. It describes Pandora’s creation, the gifts associated with her, her marriage to Epimetheus, and the opening of the vessel that releases troubles.

The poem is generally dated to around 700 BCE and is one of the earliest surviving Greek literary works. Because the manuscript tradition is ancient and the text has been translated many times, wording differs between editions. The core identification remains stable: Works and Days is the Hesiodic poem most directly associated with the familiar Pandora story.