Which ancient Greek poem tells the Pandora story as part of humanity’s origin?

Hesiod’s Works and Days tells the Pandora story as part of its account of humanity’s origin. The poem connects Pandora’s creation with the arrival of toil, sickness, and other hardships among humans.

Works and Days is an ancient Greek didactic poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod, who probably lived around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. It combines advice about farming and justice with myths and moral instruction. The Pandora episode appears in the poem’s discussion of why human life became difficult.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but Works and Days gives the fuller narrative. The two poems are not identical in emphasis: the Theogony is a genealogical account of the gods, whereas Works and Days focuses more directly on human labor, justice, and the consequences of divine action.