In which poem by Hesiod does the full surviving story of Pandora’s jar appear?

The full surviving story of Pandora’s jar appears in Hesiod’s poem Works and Days.

Works and Days is a Greek didactic poem that combines farming advice, moral instruction, mythology, and reflections on justice. Its Pandora episode explains how Zeus arranged for the creation of the first woman after Prometheus brought fire to humans. The poem then describes the opening of the vessel and the spread of troubles among people.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that passage is briefer and does not provide the complete narrative found in Works and Days. The Iliad is traditionally attributed to Homer and does not contain the standard Pandora episode. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a later Roman work and is not the earliest source.

The poem’s title is sometimes translated as Works and Days or Works and the Days. Despite variation in English titles, the reference is to the same ancient Hesiodic poem. It is the central primary literary source for the myth.