In which Hesiod poem is Pandora’s opening of the container narrated in detail?

Hesiod narrates Pandora’s opening of the container in detail in Works and Days.

Works and Days is an archaic Greek didactic poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod. It combines advice about farming, justice, labor, and proper conduct with myths explaining why human life includes hardship. The Pandora episode appears within that larger moral framework and follows the account of Prometheus’s deception and fire theft.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in Theogony, but that passage is briefer and emphasizes her role as a source of trouble for humanity. Works and Days supplies the more developed sequence: the gods fashion and adorn Pandora, Zeus sends her to Epimetheus, and she opens the container while hope remains inside.

The poem’s vessel is a pithos, or large storage jar, rather than the small box familiar from modern retellings. The “box” wording became conventional through later translation and artistic usage. This is why a question about the detailed narrative points to Works and Days, while Theogony remains an important related source.