In which Hesiod poem does the earliest surviving Greek account of Pandora appear?

The earliest surviving Greek account of Pandora appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days.

Hesiod was a Greek poet generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Works and Days is a didactic poem combining farming advice, moral instruction, myth, and reflections on justice. Its story of Pandora explains why human beings must work and why suffering exists in the world.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora-related material in Theogony, but Works and Days gives the fuller narrative: Zeus has Pandora fashioned and sends her to Epimetheus after Prometheus steals fire for humanity. The poem describes the container as a jar, not a box.

The title is sometimes written Erga kai Hemerai in Greek transliteration. It is not an epic narrative like the Iliad, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a much later Roman work that does not provide the original Greek version of this myth.