In which Hesiod poem is Pandora’s jar opened and troubles released into the human world?

In Hesiod’s poem Works and Days, Pandora’s jar is opened and troubles are released into the human world. The poem connects this event with Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus stole fire.

Works and Days is a didactic poem concerned with farming, justice, labor, moral conduct, and the conditions of human life. Pandora’s story appears within that broader explanation of why people must work and endure hardship.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in Theogony, but the famous account of the container and the evils escaping is associated especially with Works and Days. The two poems are related but are not interchangeable sources.

The standard English title uses “Works and Days,” though translations may vary in punctuation or wording. The poem is generally placed in the archaic period of Greek literature, centuries before the classical tragedies and later Roman retellings that further shaped Pandora’s image.