Pandora is mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony as well as in Works and Days. The Theogony is a genealogical poem about the origins and generations of the Greek gods, and its brief reference links Pandora with the consequences of Prometheus’s theft of fire.
Works and Days contains the longer narrative: Zeus arranges Pandora’s creation, the gods contribute gifts, and her opening of the jar releases troubles. Theogony is less detailed about the episode, but the two poems are important because they are the earliest surviving literary sources for Pandora’s myth.
Theogony is sometimes confused with Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey because all three belong to archaic Greek poetry. Hesiod, however, is traditionally associated with didactic and genealogical poems, while the Homeric epics focus on heroic narrative and the Trojan War and its aftermath.