In which Hesiod poem does the fuller surviving account of Pandora and her jar appear?

The fuller surviving account of Pandora and her jar appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days.

Works and Days is an early Greek didactic poem that combines practical advice with mythic explanations. Its subjects include farming, seafaring, justice, labor, seasonal timing, and the moral consequences of human behavior. The Pandora episode explains why people face suffering and difficult work.

Hesiod also refers to Pandora in the Theogony, but that passage is shorter and less detailed. Works and Days gives the better-known sequence: Zeus orders Pandora’s creation, the gods supply her gifts, she joins Epimetheus, and the container is opened.

The poem’s context is important. Pandora is not simply a story about curiosity; it is part of Hesiod’s account of the transition from an easier existence to a world marked by toil and hardship. Later writers and artists expanded the story in ways that do not always match the poem exactly.