Works and Days gives the fullest surviving narrative of Pandora’s creation and marriage.
The poem is traditionally attributed to Hesiod and combines practical advice about farming and justice with myths explaining human hardship. Its Pandora episode follows the conflict between Zeus and Prometheus and describes Pandora’s creation, divine gifts, and arrival as Epimetheus’s bride.
Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but the Works and Days account is the more developed narrative. It explains how Zeus arranged for Pandora to be made and how the vessel’s opening affected human life. The poem’s version is therefore the main ancient source for the familiar story.
The Iliad and Odyssey are Homeric epics and do not provide the same complete Pandora episode. Argonautica is a much later Greek epic associated with Apollonius Rhodius. These works can appear in lists of Greek mythology, but they are not the source of Hesiod’s detailed Pandora narrative.