What is the title of Hesiod’s poem containing the earliest surviving Pandora story?

Works and Days is Hesiod’s poem containing the earliest surviving literary version of the Pandora story.

The poem is a didactic work combining farming advice, moral instruction, myth, and reflections on justice. Its account of Pandora appears while Hesiod explains why human life includes labor and suffering. The story is connected to Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus takes fire from the gods.

Hesiod also discusses the myth in Theogony, but Works and Days supplies the fuller narrative about Pandora, the vessel, and the release of troubles. These two poems are among the principal surviving works associated with Hesiod, who probably lived in the archaic Greek period.

The poem’s title is sometimes written in Greek as Erga kai Hēmerai, meaning “Works and Days.” Translators vary in wording, but “Works and Days” is the standard English title and the canonical answer.