In which Hesiod poem does the fullest Pandora story appear?

The fullest Pandora story appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days.

Works and Days is a didactic poem concerned with farming, justice, work, and proper conduct. Within that practical poem, Hesiod tells how Zeus arranged Pandora’s creation and how the release of evils explained the hardships affecting human life.

Hesiod’s Theogony also includes Pandora-related material, but it gives a shorter account. Works and Days is the key source for the sequence in which Pandora is created, brought to Epimetheus, and associated with the container of troubles and the remaining hope.

The poem’s context matters because Pandora is part of Hesiod’s argument about human labor and suffering. The myth is not an isolated fairy tale; it helps explain why work is necessary and why mortals cannot expect a life free from difficulty.