In which Hesiod work is Pandora’s story told most fully?

Pandora’s story is told most fully in Hesiod’s Works and Days.

Works and Days is a didactic Greek poem concerned with farming, justice, labor, and the hardships of human life. Its account of Pandora explains how troubles entered the world after Prometheus stole fire and deceived Zeus.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that version is shorter and focuses more directly on the relationship between Zeus, Prometheus, and the creation of women. Works and Days supplies the better-known details about the jar, the escaping evils, and the element that remains inside.

The poem is one of the major surviving sources for early Greek mythology. It is not a dramatic play or an epic journey like The Iliad or The Odyssey. Its practical moral framework helps explain why the Pandora episode is tied to work, responsibility, and the consequences of disobedience.