In which Hesiod poem is Pandora’s opening of the container described most fully?

Pandora’s opening of the container is described most fully in Hesiod’s Works and Days.

The poem is a didactic work about justice, labor, farming, and the difficult conditions of human life. Within that broader discussion, Hesiod tells how Zeus had Pandora created and sent to Epimetheus. The story functions as an explanation for why troubles affect human beings.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in Theogony, but that work gives a shorter account and emphasizes her role in the gods’ wider genealogy and the punishment connected with Prometheus. The two poems are therefore related sources, not interchangeable versions of exactly the same passage.

Works and Days is especially important because it preserves the narrative details most readers recognize today: Pandora’s arrival, the sealed vessel, its opening, and the survival of hope. Modern retellings often draw from both Hesiodic poems while simplifying their theological and moral context.