What is the Greek title of Hesiod’s poem that tells the Pandora story?
Answer
Erga kai Hēmerai
Answer
Erga kai Hēmerai
The Greek title of Hesiod’s poem that tells the Pandora story is Erga kai Hēmerai. The title is commonly translated into English as Works and Days.
The poem combines advice about farming, justice, labor, seafaring, and proper conduct with myths explaining the human condition. Pandora appears in its account of how Zeus answered Prometheus’s theft of fire and introduced suffering into mortal life.
The Theogony is another surviving poem associated with Hesiod and also mentions Pandora, but it is not the work that gives the fullest version of the opening-container episode. Argonautica is a much later epic by Apollonius Rhodius about Jason and the Argonauts. Knowing the Greek title helps distinguish the myth’s primary literary setting from later retellings and translations.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026