The title of Hesiod’s ancient Greek poem that tells Pandora’s creation and arrival among humans is Works and Days. It is the fullest surviving ancient account of the episode.
Works and Days is a didactic poem concerned with justice, farming, labor, family conflict, and the proper organization of life. Pandora’s story appears in that broader moral and social context rather than as an isolated adventure tale. Hesiod connects the character’s arrival with the difficulties that now affect human existence.
Hesiod also wrote the Theogony, which discusses the origins and genealogies of the gods. Theogony contains a brief reference to Pandora but does not provide the same extended narrative found in Works and Days. This distinction is why Works and Days is the standard source cited for the complete Pandora episode.