Which ancient Greek poem tells Pandora’s story in an account about humanity’s hardships?

Works and Days tells Pandora’s story in an account about humanity’s hardships. The poem is attributed to Hesiod and combines practical advice about farming and justice with myths explaining the human condition.

Pandora appears in the poem after the story of Prometheus’s theft of fire. Zeus’s response introduces a woman whose arrival is connected with suffering and the troubles that affect mortal life. The episode is one part of a broader sequence about labor, justice, and declining human conditions.

Theogony, another poem attributed to Hesiod, also mentions Pandora-related material but is not the main source for the familiar jar episode. The Iliad and Odyssey are Homeric epics and do not provide the standard full narrative of Pandora’s creation and container.