Works and Days gives the fullest surviving account of Pandora’s creation and her jar.
The poem is attributed to Hesiod and is usually dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. It combines advice about farming and justice with myths explaining why human life contains labor, suffering, and moral difficulty. The Pandora episode appears within that broader explanation of the human condition.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that shorter reference does not provide the complete jar narrative. Works and Days describes Zeus’s plan, the gods’ contributions to Pandora’s appearance and skills, and the release of troubles from the vessel.
The Iliad and Odyssey are Homeric epics and do not contain Hesiod’s full Pandora story. The Argonautica is a much later Greek epic associated with Apollonius Rhodius, so it is not the source of this myth.