In which poem does Hesiod describe Pandora as the first woman created by Zeus’s plan?

Hesiod describes Pandora as the first woman created by Zeus’s plan in Works and Days.

The poem presents Pandora’s creation as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. Zeus orders Hephaestus to make a woman from earth, and the gods then equip her with gifts and qualities. She is sent to Epimetheus, where the container episode follows. The story functions as an explanation for why humans must work and why suffering forms part of mortal life.

Hesiod’s Theogony also refers to Pandora-related material, but Works and Days provides the fuller narrative most readers recognize. That distinction matters because the two poems are often treated as interchangeable sources even though they have different purposes and versions of the myth.

The Odyssey and Iliad are Homeric epics and do not provide the standard Pandora narrative. Theogony is the tempting wrong answer because it is another poem by Hesiod, but Works and Days is the specific source for the detailed story of Pandora’s creation and jar.