Which ancient Greek poem contains the fullest account of Pandora’s opened container?

Works and Days contains the fullest ancient Greek account of Pandora’s opened container.

The poem is attributed to Hesiod and combines practical advice about farming with reflections on justice, labor, human history, and relations between gods and mortals. Within that wider work, Hesiod explains how Zeus responds to Prometheus’s theft of fire and introduces Pandora as part of humanity’s punishment.

Hesiod’s Theogony also mentions Pandora, but its reference is much briefer. The famous sequence involving the creation of Pandora, her arrival among humans, and the release of evils is associated primarily with Works and Days.

Later writers, translators, artists, and filmmakers expanded the story in different ways. Consequently, details familiar today may not appear in Hesiod’s version. The poem’s original container is a pithos, and Hope remains inside after the other contents escape.