Hesiod’s Theogony also mentions Pandora in a brief account of her creation. The poem is primarily a genealogy and origin story of the Greek gods, tracing divine generations from Chaos through the Olympians.
In the Theogony, Pandora appears in the context of Zeus’s response to Prometheus and the theft of fire. The passage presents the creation of woman as a consequence for humanity, but it is much shorter than the narrative in Works and Days. The two poems are the earliest surviving literary sources for the Pandora tradition.
Readers sometimes assume that Works and Days is the only ancient source because it contains the more developed episode. Theogony is nevertheless important because it shows that the Pandora story belonged to Hesiod’s wider mythological account. It also demonstrates that early Greek versions did not necessarily describe the container with the same level of narrative detail found in later retellings.