The ancient Greek poem that includes one of the earliest references to Pandora besides Works and Days is Theogony.
Theogony is attributed to Hesiod and presents a genealogy and history of the gods. Its account of Pandora is shorter than the detailed narrative in Works and Days, but it connects her creation with Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus’s theft of fire.
The poem is one of the key sources for understanding early Greek ideas about divine generations, cosmic order, and the relationship between gods and humans. Because Theogony and Works and Days are both attributed to Hesiod, they are often read together when reconstructing the Pandora tradition.
Pandora does not appear as a central character in Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey. The Argonautica is a much later epic associated with Apollonius Rhodius and focuses on Jason and the Argonauts. These works may contain related mythic traditions, but Theogony is the specific early poem sought here.