In which Hesiod poem is the Pandora myth told most fully?

Works and Days tells the Pandora myth most fully among Hesiod’s surviving poems.

Works and Days is a didactic poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod and generally dated to the early archaic period of Greek literature. It combines practical advice, moral teaching, farming guidance, and myths about human life.

Its Pandora episode explains how suffering entered the world after Prometheus gave fire to humanity. Zeus orders the gods to create Pandora, she goes to Epimetheus, and the jar releases evils while hope remains inside.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that passage is shorter and serves a different purpose within a work about divine origins and succession. The Iliad and Odyssey, Homeric epics, are not the primary surviving source for the familiar Pandora narrative. This distinction helps separate early literary evidence from later retellings.