Works and Days is Hesiod’s poem that combines Pandora’s myth with advice about farming and justice.
The poem is not a continuous mythological epic. It addresses practical and moral concerns, including agricultural labor, seasonal timing, honest conduct, and the importance of justice. Hesiod embeds the Pandora episode within this broader explanation of why human beings must work and endure hardship.
The poem’s Pandora narrative is especially important because it describes the vessel, its contents, and the consequences of opening it. The story therefore appears in a work concerned not only with gods and origins but also with everyday human responsibility.
Theogony is Hesiod’s other major surviving poem and focuses more directly on divine genealogy and cosmic succession. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a later Roman work and is not the source of the canonical Greek account of Pandora.