In which Hesiod poem is the fullest ancient account of Pandora’s jar found?

The fullest ancient account of Pandora’s jar is found in Hesiod’s Works and Days. The poem combines myth, moral instruction, advice about farming, and reflections on justice and human labor.

Its Pandora passage follows the story of Prometheus’s theft of fire. Zeus has the gods create and equip Pandora, who is sent to Epimetheus; after the vessel is opened, troubles spread among humanity while hope remains inside.

Pandora is also mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony, but Works and Days supplies the detailed narrative familiar to later readers. The poem is therefore the most specific primary literary source for the jar episode and for the connection between Pandora and the origins of human hardship.