In which Hesiod poem does the Pandora myth appear alongside the story of Prometheus?

The Pandora myth appears alongside the story of Prometheus in Hesiod’s poem Works and Days.

Works and Days is an archaic Greek didactic poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod, who probably lived around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. It combines advice about farming, justice, labor, seafaring, and the organization of the year with mythological explanations of human suffering.

In its mythic material, Zeus punishes humanity after Prometheus steals fire for humans. Pandora is created and sent among mortals, and the opening of her container becomes an explanation for why troubles spread through human life. The poem’s moral emphasis is important: Hesiod connects hardship with divine justice and presents work as a necessary condition of human existence.

Hesiod also discusses Pandora in the Theogony, but the fuller narrative involving the container and the release of evils is associated with Works and Days. The two poems should not be treated as interchangeable retellings.